Help please with text over an image...

[brown2005]

h4 {margin-top: -25px;
width: 579px;
height: 74px;
background: url(4.gif) no-repeat;}

hi i have that in the css and then

<h4><span>Go go go</span></h4>

where the image is, but the text go go go does not show up, any ideas please?

[ted_chou12]

4.gif is your image?

[ted_chou12]

i dont think you need the span, try removing it
Ted

[brown2005]

nope that didnt work mate

[.josh]

kind of hard to help without knowing what the rest of your layout/style looks like...you can start by posting a link to the offending page..

[Ninjakreborn]

It is probably because you don't have a color applied to the Text itself.
[quote]h4 {margin-top: -25px;
width: 579px;
height: 74px;
background: url(4.gif) no-repeat;}

hi i have that in the css and then

<h4><span>Go go go</span></h4>

where the image is, but the text go go go does not show up, any ideas please?[/quote]
What you are showing us here, is you have a header tag, and a span tag inside it, with text.
Here you show you are trying to put in the image.
You did the image right, so it appears, you have a width/height set to it.  The margin top, to give it some spacing, but  you didn't specify a color of the text.  By default text (in css), starts off black, by default.  If the image is black, dark in color, or conflicing colors, you won't be able to read the text because of hte image color. If it's a darker color try setting text to
color:#FFFFFF;

[Jtech]

Do this
[code]
span.picturebackground{
margin-top:0;
width: 579px;
height: 74px;
background: url(4.gif) no-repeat;
}

h4{
size:22pt;
float:center;
}


[/code]

this is the body text now

[code]

<span class="picturebackground">

<h4> goo goo goooooo </h4>

</span>



I think that should work
[/code]

[Jtech]

Opps delete the size:22pt in the <h4> attribute  that wasnt ament to be there it will overwrite the <h4> size