: How can I get a transparent artboard? I want to make a text effect and for that I want a transparent background. My question arises from here; how do I get a transparent background? I am

@Tiffany317

top of the Adobe Illustrator's menu bar. choose "view" scroll down to "show transparent grid" click it. or use " shift command D "

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@Gonzalez368

The background already exists as transparent. If you're trying to export for Web and getting a white background then you may be using a image type in the export that doesn't support transparencies. PNG or Gif will fix this.

It's hard to tell what you're asking for.

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@Kimberly620

The background is transparent. It is just emulating paper so you can not see it. A block of white is different from the white background.

You can enable Photoshop like transparency grid by choosing View → Show transparency grid (ctrl / cmd + shift + D). On top of that make sure: save for web has transparency enabled. The transparency grid is just a view option, the white background is still transparent, transparency grid or not. (one learns quite quickly to appraise the transparency even without the grid, which can be distracting)

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