PNG transparency

[georgemonster]

I set the background of a table cell to a PNG image that has transparency in it but when viewed in IE, it doesn't work.

When viewed in Dreamweaver it does work. Can't figure this out. Is there another way of doing this?

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cheers,

George

[senocular]

IE doesnt support PNG transparency... not natively at least. There are workarounds you can google (though I dont recall if any work for table backgrounds).

[.soulty]

off the bat IE pretty sadly does not support transparent png's yet..

to create something like you want, you have to do something like slice up the images and include a bit of the background pattern and drop shadow and then in your html page include the tile as a background image. You might have lining up problems but you could try to counter this with background positioning or something else im not aware of.

Hope that helps you, and if any one else has a better solution, post it, because i would like to know as well. lol


edit:: found this .. reading it at the moment
http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/

[georgemonster]

cheers guys, I'll have a fiddle around and hope it works!

[.soulty]

that link i provided is crazy, you have to use a php code to replace your tags and replaces it with a
"1px x 1px PNG-8 image containing binary transparency (which MSIE does support)" hmm you tried this georgem?

[georgemonster]

I changed it so that there isn't any transparency already.

I've read the article...interesting, thanks.
I'll get back to this tomorrow and change it back! yay. i think it said that the php code only works in IE though. :(

G

[.soulty]

^ well obviously it only works in ie, all other browser support png transparency. your first link viewed in firefox and opera showed up fine.