I have a .png file with a transparent background, but when I put it in a K2 article the background becomes white.

I found these two threads with solutions:

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/white-background-showing-for
community.getk2.org/forum/topics/pngs-transparency-not

The solutions are not working for me, unfortunately.

When I inspect the image, it tells me that k2.css has the following line, making the background white:
div.itemFullText img {padding:2px;margin:4px;background:#fff;border:1px solid #666;}

But when I open k2.css in a text editor I find
div.itemFullText img {}
so there is nothing to edit.

Searching the file for the word "background" I deleted backgrounds from as many "img" tags as I could (after making a copy of the original file, of course), but it still shows up with a white background. I even added "background:none;" to div.itemFullText img {}, but still nothing.

What am I missing? Is this container type inheriting properties from something I can't see? Are there more than one k2.css I should be looking in?

Hi William Gollinger,

I believe you're using the image tab to upload the images when adding items. K2 converts all images uploaded from the image tab to jpg.

See here

Thanks! I'll make sure to only add images with the editor.

I found the real source of my problem: I was editing k2.css in the com_k2 folder, but the file which had the background settings was k2.css in my template's css folder.

Stupid mistake, but it's easy to make!

You're welcome. Well, it's not just you...i've done similar things before :P