[css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) I think that the pages I've scoured only work on img src=transparent.png/ and not on .myclass { background-image: url( transparent.png ) }

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Rob Emenecker
Geoff, The problem is that most solutions regarding PNG-32 transparency with IE rely on using a DirectX filter to dynamically rewrite the image (usually via JavaScript). Of course, with CSS, this doesn't work, because the JS does not find the image in the document.images[] object array. If

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On Thu, March 13, 2008 2:42 pm, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) Unfortunately, it can't be done. The IE filter that allows for PNG transparency

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) There are solutions for PNG background-images, they none of them can tile or position this image, for example

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Faircloth
Discussion Subject: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) I think that the pages I've scoured only work on img src=transparent.png/ and not on .myclass

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
For anyone reading this post in the future, I thought I'd reply to my own post. For those of you who say it can't be done, at least in IE6, I have a solution working... I haven't checked it in IE 5.5 or below. What I discovered is that background-repeat:repeat-x and background-repeat:repeat-y

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: For anyone reading this post in the future, I thought I'd reply to my own post. For those of you who say it can't be done, at least in IE6, I have a solution working... I haven't checked it in IE 5.5 or below. What I discovered is that background-repeat:repeat-x

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
I don't know what you mean by complex alpha, but I have a 32-bit png (it's just black fading to transparent, a 25x25px png, eg yes it is a a nice soft 8-bit alpha) that acts as a shadow on both sides of a site that has a table floated in the center and the png tiles down both sides. It is casting

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: I don't know what you mean by complex alpha, but I have a 32-bit png (it's just black fading to transparent, a 25x25px png, eg yes it is a a nice soft 8-bit alpha) that acts as a shadow on both sides of a site that has a table floated in the center and the png tiles