I have a simple file, just text on a small canvas.

When I loaded it as a background image on a site, it was the red text I chose on a transparent background. I googled and searched this forum and saw that I could go into the document properties and change the background of the svg file to make it the white background I want.

The R,G,B and A are all 255...but the image is still red text on a transparent background. Anything I need to be checking?

Thanks.

It should work. No idea what could be wrong.
Could you show us .svg file?

Hi.

If you open your svg in a notepad you will see that the background colour you set in the document's properties panel,
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are all stored inside a <sodipodi> tag, which refers to the progam inkscape was based upon.
Technically those parts with the tag only affects the rendering inside the inkscape window.
As far as I know there is no such part in the svg specification that could define a background colour, meaning you will have to draw something with white below the text to have a non-transparent background.

http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=102.0

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