[SOLVED] transparent favicon . . . HOW??

RandyG · 11:02 AM

Hi Guys!

I've been playing around with favicons and am getting really annoyed at not being able to get a transparent background for mine.

Now, I have the image, and save it as a gif with transparent background, then use IrfanView to convert it to ico file. It shows a white background.

I searched around and found a post saying that ico's should have a default transparent background and that would be whatever the color of the pixel at the top left corner is, so I saved the durn thing with a white background and a black background . . . both display colored backgrounds.

I found another reference that IE6 does not display the transparent background as transparent, which I am beginning to believe except for one thing . . . all of the other favicon's in my favorites folder displaying with transparent backgrounds.

Does anyone know how I can get this to work??

I've attached the gif file, which definitely has a transparent background. this is the one I used ot make the favicon.ico.

RandyG · 13-Jan-2004, 11:00 AM #2

Just to show you what is showing up for me

sekirt · 13-Jan-2004, 12:37 PM #3

Hi Randy
Haven't got time to research the results, so only half an answer. Hope it leads you in the right direction:

http://www.passtheshareware.com/c-icons.htm

I asked the Great Google: Make transparent ico files freeware

sekirt

**bassetman** · 13-Jan-2004, 01:02 PM #4

Hi

Try this one!

**bassetman** · 13-Jan-2004, 01:08 PM #5

Here is what I did in PhotShop Randy.

RandyG · 14-Jan-2004, 06:30 AM #6

Thanx for the try Bass, but here's what it looks like after saving your gif as an ico file

RandyG · 14-Jan-2004, 06:42 AM #7

sekirt - thanx for the attempt. I tried some of the apps found at your link, and all of the ones that mention Transparent backgrounds refer to the text box for Shortcuts on your desktop. They were apps that run on your local machine to make your local desktop look different, and not used for favicons.

Still looking!!

**bassetman** · 14-Jan-2004, 11:17 AM #8

Quote:

Originally posted by RandyG:
Thanx for the try Bass, but here's what it looks like after saving your gif as an ico file

So you need more of the bg color transparent?

RandyG · 14-Jan-2004, 11:23 AM #9

what I'm saying is that your gif and my gif are transparent, but when you convert it to an ico file, it is no longer transparent.

You made your background look more like what a standard IE Menu bar is, but it looked even worse. basically, if I can't get the stupid favicon.ico to have a transparent background, then I'll leave it white.

**bassetman** · 11:30 AM

This one looks fine on a white bg. I could take some more of the white, but I think that will take away some of the shimmer on the logo, unless that's OK by you.