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Background Colors and Transparent Background Images

If the background image is a transparent GIF, the page is rendered so that the background color is "underneath" the image, and the color peeks through the transparent parts. Consider this (slightly obnoxious) background image:

background image with transparency test image

The circles in the image are the only parts that aren't transparent. Now let's put that image on a page with a blue background:

this code produces this 
<BODY 
    BGCOLOR="#AAAAFF" 
    BACKGROUND="../graphics/bgtest.gif" 
    TEXT="#000000" 
    LINK="#0000FF" 
    VLINK="#FF66FF" 
    ALINK="#FF0000" 
    >
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