I have made a logo using Inkscape. I would like to use it on my website. I need it to have no background. I read that by default Inkscapes background is transparent. But when I look at my .svg file of the logo, the drawing background is transparent, but the where the text is, there is just a black box. When I save it as a .png which I understand supports transparent backgrounds, I get a white background behind the logo and text.

Can anybody help how to get transparent background?

I actually solved this myself. I was saving using the cairo png option. I was just to use the export option and it was all solved.

t.

You probably ran into inkscape's flowed text which is not part of the current svg 1.1 specification.
That is by, when you wrote it you rectangle draw the textbox instead of just clicking on the canvas I guess.

Convert the flowed text to normal text by pressing Shift+Alt+W.
Another option that might do the trick, is to save the drawing into plain svg.

Saving as cairo png turns your vector design into a raster file,
with a fixed resolution, so that's not a good one.