March 2006

Using Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer

March 25, 2006, 11:45 AM | 10 Comments

Up until a couple of weeks ago, I thought that there was no way to use transparent or semi-transparent PNG images in IE. I was wrong. My only excuse is a bad one too: I read it somewhere.

The truth is that there is a pretty good way to use transparent PNG images with CSS. It’s not without its drawbacks (I’ll get into those later) and it doesn’t use valid CSS, but while we wait for PNGs to be fully supported by all major browsers, it seems to me that it’s a fairly good solution.

It’s my opinion that the benefits of using alpha PNG images far outweigh the drawbacks of your CSS not validating, so without further ado, here’s how it’s done:

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