title: navbar background image not transparent
body: <p>I have an image which is essential a square with a semi-circular bottom. The image has a transparent background I want to set it as the repeating background of my navbar which gives the effect of a canopy. </p>
  
  <p>I see that the transparent parts of the image are not transparent when i view my site, they are white.Why can i not see my sites background?</p>
  
  <p>background image with transparent background<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iywTA.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Resulting nav bar
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/e8rYE.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>css</p>
  
  <pre><code>  .navbar-default {
          box-shadow: none;
          border: 0;
          margin-bottom:0; 
          background-image: url('../img/navbarbackground.png');
          font-family: angsannaUPC;
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>html
       
      
          <br>
            
                
                  
                  
                    
                      Toggle navigation
                      
                      
                      
                    
                    
                    M.F.O'Hare &amp; Associates&lt;/a>-->
                  </p>
  
  <pre><code>            &lt;!-- Collect the nav links, forms, and other content for toggling --&gt;
              &lt;div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1"&gt;
                &lt;ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-center"&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/projects.html"&gt;Cakes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/services.html"&gt;Buns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/aboutus.html"&gt;About us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/contactus.html"&gt;Contact us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                &lt;/ul&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- /.navbar-collapse --&gt;
            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- /.container-fluid --&gt;
          &lt;/nav&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;  
  </code></pre>