You're right, I did misunderstand the issue. Found one when where there were two! <g>
As Alan says, add the background to the anchor like: table.styledTable thead th a, table.styledTable thead th a:link, table.styledTable thead th a:visited, table.styledTable thead th a:hover { background: transparent url(bg.gif) center right no-repeat; color: #990000; display: block; text-decoration: none; height: 100%; width: auto; padding-right: 15px; } You can see it working at: www.webbwize.co.uk/Test_Area/tabletest.html Grab the code if you wish, after all, it is your code. I'll leave it there for today. BTW I only mentioned the transparency issues because you aksed about them in the first place. :-) Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Finney To: Alan K Baker Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Background in IE6 and 7 I am afriad you have miss understood the issue. Your amendment doesn't fix it it breaks it further as there is no directional arrow at all. Look closely at the mark up and the css you will see that .header is a class attached to a th NOT a tr. The white space is therefore necessary. If it helps you to visualise it add the th in like this: /* table.styledTable thead tr th.header { background: transparent url(bg.gif) center right no-repeat; text-align: left; } */ Your amendment will stop the white overlaying the background - yes. But it then displays the wrong background to the th, I specifically want two bcakground images, one on the tr, one over the top of it on the th. View the original in FF you will see there is a directional arrow over the top of the gradient. I know there are img transparency issues with IE, but this is not about img transparency. it is about the background-color: transparent; inconsistencies I am getting ............... ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/