> I'm trying to use the jQuery Cycle plugin to cycle some images in my > web site design but the background color of the containing div keeps > appearing as the images fade out. I have been unable to force the > background color of the div containing my images to be white. I even > tried an additional containing div with its background set to white > and I still get the background color of the header div (see HTML
I'm not sure what styles you have on "pic-container" so all I see is that you have a block level element (div) contained within an inline element (span). You should change that span to a div and give it a fixed height (via css). That should fix your problem. Mike

