Background Not Showing in IE 1

[jeberlan]

I've got a web page that has a background color specified on the body and contains a TD tag with an image as a background (<td border="1" background="events....jpg">)
I've got a user complaining that they can't see the image. The body's background is white (not the expected color) and the text is also a different font than what I specified.
Why is this one user having a problem?
The browser is IE 6.0. AOL is installed.

 

[TamedTech]

Have you got a link to the site so we can have a better look at your code?

Thanks,

Rob

p.s. AOL!!! ... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

 

[jeberlan]

http://www.yoursportingimage.com/Image.asp?catalogID=936687

AOL: yeah, that's the culprate in my mind, I'd just like to prove it.

 

[Rieekan]

The page given is not valid. Without valid HTML, there's no telling what unique things will occur with your pages.

W3c Validator

Some things to fix are:
[ul]
[li]Add a Doctype[/li]
[li]Add appropriate HTML code (HTML, HEAD, BODY, etc. tags)[/li]
[/ul]

- George

 

[Vragabond]

If this is happening only with one user, I would presume it is the user's browser, being set up to load custom stylesheet. That has something to do with the contrast settings in Windows.

 

[jeberlan]

It would be nice if I could prove it.
Where in the browser can I "set up to load custom stylesheet"? I've looked for it in IE and came up short.
What does contrast settings in Windows have to do with my problem?

 

[Rieekan]

Sure you can set up a user defined style sheet by going to Tools / Internet Options and in the General tab, choose Accessibility. The last item on that window is to add a custom style sheet.

However, your page is not valid HTML. I'd bet if you work through those issues first, the browser output would solve itself more easily.

- George

 

[jeberlan]

George,
That was it. "Ignore colors.." was all I needed to check to reproduce the error.
The HTML error that the W3C validator found was not causing the problem, but I will fix the problem.
Thanks a lot for the insite.