[thelist] IE5.5 css transparency

[Brent Eades]

joe wrote:

> Am I right in thinking that IE5.5+ supports the following css extension?
> 
> filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity='50')
> 
> After googling I've been able to confirm that it supports 
> AlphaImageLoader, but I can't find anything confirming Alpha.
> 
> The easy way for me to check this would be to use my standalone install, 
> but I can't get my version of IE5.5 to display transparency, even though 
> I suspect it should. Anyone had any joy with this?

Yes and no. See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/reference/filters/alpha.asp

This page asserts that a declaration in this general form:

<style type="text/css">
    .aClass{filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50);}
</style>

... will work in MSIE 5.5 when applied to numerous HTML tags. In my 
tinkering with this some years ago, however, I found that it worked 
erratically at best. It would work for one class but not another, and 
one tag but not another. For instance, this was OK:

<style type="text/css">
     body {filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50);}
</style>

... but not this:

<style type="text/css">
    h2 {filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50);}
</style>

And so on.

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Brent Eades	
Almonte, Ontario
http://almonte.com