[PLUG] Background color of a gif image on a web page...

Michael C. Robinson michael at goose.robinson-west.com
Sun Aug 31 02:24:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 22:28, Sandy Herring wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Sandy Herring wasn't thinking when he wrote: 
> > The value for the -transparent option is the color to be regarded as
> > transparent. In your case, black is the color. The command would be...
> > 
> >     convert -transparent "#FFFFFF" back.gif
> 
> doh! s/FFFFFF/000000/
> 
> Sandy
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Okay I've done that, now how do I use the converted gif in my html
code to get it to show up better?  I'm using <IMG SRC="back.gif"></IMG>.

Another approach I've discovered is encapsulating the gif in a table,
It look tacky though considering you see a double uneven box around
the image.

    --  Michael




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