Hi! Does anyone know how to make the Google AdSense window transparent? Is it even possible?
When you look at the JavaScript code that is being called at the end of the Google HTML script it contains this: allowtransparency="true"

But even if you change or remove the google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; the window is still filled with solid color. All I want to do is for the ads window to be consistent with the rest of the design and place a small colorful graphics in the right-top part of the window.

Maybe if you change the 'google_color_bg' setting to 'transparent' that would do the trick?

If not, i suppose your best bet is to take a look at the adSense documentation. As far as i know, google will let you customise the appearance of the adblock pretty much anyway you want.
Although, it would be kind of dangerous to allow a transparent background, as that would be an easy target for abuse (black background underneath with black adtext)

I don't think you can make the background of the ads transparent. I just spend some time searching about it and wasn't able to come up with anything. It would be nice if you could and I can see it being a good way to increase CTR on the ads, but I don't think there's a way you can.

I'm not at all 100% certain about this and I'll keep looking to see if I find anything.

I don't think so either. It inserts an iframe, and I don't think you can make 'em transparent.

I just found this thread at Google groups, which makes it clear you can't set the background to be transparent. It's from August 7th 2006 so unless things have changed since then you have to live with a color.

I saw another thread where someone claimed it was on a list of changes that might be incorporated and it would be nice to see them add the ability.

Chris, I didn't know this until a few minutes ago, but apparently that allowtransparency=true is to let an iframe have a transparent background.

I sense Google intended not to make it transparent, with all the upfront technologies in google they can do it a snap. If it is transparent adsenseI would imagine 'some' might overlay tme with something else to create accidental clicks.

Thank you all.

Dragonlady, I really don't know how a transparent window full of ads can help anyone to accidental clicks. If people want to cheat by making users think they are clicking Google ads, but click other instead, then a much easier way would be to create a dummy google ads window filled with those "con ads". Either way it's cheating.

A transparent window would let webmasters to synchronize the look of google ads with their site's design much better. Just think of gradient backgrounds or any other non-solid color background. I just don't think that disabling transparency helped either Google or Web designers.

Was searching for adsense transparent background and came across this thread.

Heres the reason for wanting a transparent background: to use an background image which is a gradient colour.

I use this with YPN (Yahoo version of adsense):

<div align="center"><DIV STYLE="width: 160px; filter: chroma (color=#FFFFFF)"> Your Adsense code here </div>

Then change your background color in your code to FFFFFF and it becomes
transparent.

You can change pixel size to whatever your ad width size is. Only problems I have with it is text gets blurred when I use black or blue for text color, link color. It's not perfect, but I am experimenting with it.

You don't actually change the adsense code, so it should be OK in TOS.

the only thing you can edit ads is trough your adsense account...