Thanks, Regards,
Ashley On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:04 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="ashley maher"> > > > I'm finishing a web site. > > > > The designer has supplied png files with transparent backgrounds. > > > > In Firefox these work great. > > > > I just did a quick test in IE. > > > > All transparent backgrounds show up as grey boxes in IE. > > > > Anybody come across this before? > > > > Is there a work around? > > There is a workaround involving using DirectX filters (enabled via CSS) in > IE. You'll be able to find it using search terms in Google like "transparent > PNG Internet Explorer". > > If you don't need 8 bit (ie. full alpha) transparency, you can use 1 bit PNG > transparency in IE, which works as well as 1 bit GIF transparency. Also, if > you really don't need transparency at all - perhaps your images all sit on a > white background - you can change the background fallback colour when you > save them in The GIMP. > > If neither of those work given your design, then you're stuck with the yucky > DirectX filter hack, or rethinking how your design fits together (often you > don't *really* need transparent images to nail your design). > > - Jeff > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
