Can an IFRAME have a transparent background color?

I have an IFRAME over an image and I want the white background in the IFRAME to be transparent to that you can see the graphic

don´t think that´s possible... Use a DIV instead..

how do I make a page load up in a DIV

You can't make an Iframe transparent, but you can set a background for the page you're loading in the iframe and set the background to be in a fixed position.

you can insert this code into the iframe tag on the page where the iframe resides and the color of the page within the iframe will not show it's color ... ie5.5+

*iframe id="datamain" src="news.htm" ALLOWTRANSPARENCY="true" width="100%" height=200 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=yes>

then if you can put a background image into the table holding the iframe as a background.


edit: as i look back over your post my solution makes the background completely transparent. If you are looking for a translucent white that might take a little more thinking.

i've tried that code. i can't get it to work.


you just put: allowtransparency="true" in the [iframe]tags?

<_ iframe id="blah" src="http://www.noserver.xx/blah.htm" ALLOWTRANSPARENCY="true" width="100" height="100" margin width="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" _>