Use background-image:none to show no background image
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> * .no-bg { background-image: none; background-color: transparent; } </style> </head> <body> <p><div class="no-bg">No background</div></p> </body> </html>