In addition to my previous words: every element which is within other element which has opacity lower then 1 will inherit its parent's opacity.
For example if you place paragraph in div with opacity: 0.7, the paragraph will have the same (even if you give him opacity: 1) > http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/ The solutions from Turbodurso are OK, but I do not use JS for IE, I'm quite sure we can ignore IE 5, just focus on IE6 and higher So lets say this is the code: <div id="transpBg"> <p>Some text</p> </div> normal css (even for IE 6) #transpBg { background: transparent url(transp.png); } css for ie 6 (in special stylesheet or star hack) #transpBg { background: none !important; /* necessary */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src="transp.png", sizingMethod="crop"); /* check dependences between sizing method and how it shows pics */ z-index: 1; /* has Layout fix - there are some ways to do it this is one of them */ } But I'm sure you know it now, just wanted to help in case if you don't :) Tom
