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

[Grish]

Michael C. Robinson wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 22:28, Sandy Herring wrote:
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>>On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Sandy Herring wasn't thinking when he wrote: 
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>>>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...
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>>>    convert -transparent "#FFFFFF" back.gif
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>>doh! s/FFFFFF/000000/
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>>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>.
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>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.
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Well, you could start with correct HTML:

http://htmlhelp.org/reference/html40/special/img.html

All you should have to do is switch the image tag to use the converted 
image instead of the original one.