I'm having a problem with a background image for my blog. Although it is the exact same image, the background color of it is appearing different in both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Like, it's still magenta, but in IE, it's slightly darker than it should be. I found this out when I was putting together a new layout, checking it between browsers, and the hexidecimal code I had calculated to match the image and fill out the rest of the page didn't match on IE. Anybody have any clue????

if its a png image that's why. make it a gif.

ie doesn't like png images and mozilla supports them

Internet Explorer has a slight difference in its interpretation of hex codes. It is partly due to the fact that computers support more colors than hex codes can create. For example, when you create an image, you can have two slightly different pixels that will have the same hex code.

I don't know if that makes sense...

^it makes perfect sense... ;)

But it drives me also mad sometimes... it's incredibly annoying ;)

Lead a revolt against IE and convince the world to switch to Firefox, all the while working on even better security for it. Yep, that's the best solution.

*agrees with Kisara*
I hope, the new IE is not as bad as IE6...
It will take years till IE with all his faults will be neglactable when coding websites...*sigh*
Perhaps they will fix the hexcodes there...

Thanks you guys. I will try for a different color. And I much agree with the part about IE. It sucks, but since most of my blog viewers use it, I have to make my site IE compatible in appearance. It's amazing places like schools haven't switched over to MF, because of it's greater security.

Lead a revolt against IE and convince the world to switch to Firefox, all the while working on even better security for it. Yep, that's the best solution.
I agree!!!! Down with IE!!!!!Microsoft is evil. This stupid image is still giving me trouble in IE. I dunno what to do. First the image color is off, then I have to redo it, which changes the image map, then it wouldn't map correctly(still won't), now the color prob is back again. If I ever get through this, it'll be the DIV's next. Arrrrr!!!!!

if its a png image that's why. make it a gif.

ie doesn't like png images and mozilla supports them
The problem is that when I save the image as a .GIF, it gets really fuzzy. I prefer .PNG images because they retain their clarity.

The problem is that when I save the image as a .GIF, it gets really fuzzy. I prefer .PNG images because they retain their clarity.

Do you have Adobe Photoshop? It makes a wonder with compressing JPG files.

The problem is that when I save the image as a .GIF, it gets really fuzzy. I prefer .PNG images because they retain their clarity.

but not the color in ie :D try .jpg like djou said