horizontal stripes in background pattern

[jxm28788]

Hi,

Just creating a new website with an image as the background to the left menu bar.

I'm using a 5 pixel high gif which repeats down the left bar, however I seem to be getting faint stripes down the page. I'm sure I've just missed some basic html thing but can't figure it out - any ideas?

example of code -

<td background="left-bar-background.gif" valign="top" width="200">

example of stripes -

[leehack]

If you are after a plain consistent colour, why not just use the hexadecimal colour as the background? No need for an image to do this.

On most occasions when something repeats like this, the fault is in the image file itself. Problem being it is so small that you can't see it to fathom it out. Recreate the image, by painting the colour so it is consistent for definite.

[jxm28788]

the reason for the image is the rounded 3d effect on the right edge - but I will check out the image file as you suggest.

[Duncan Rounding]

There definitely seems to be a 1px line of a different colour on the top or bottom of that image - blow it it and you should see it.

[completerookie]

does it only appear in firefox, or is this a cross-browser issue?