Does the newer versions of IE support transparency with png images?

[Cleo]

The thread title pretty much says what I'm asking.

I know IE 6 doesn't support transparency with png images but was wondering if 7 or 8 or whatever version IE is up to now supports ransparency with png images.

[LD]

Yes...

[Cleo]

Good to know. I've been using a transparent png as the start button in Flowplayer and wow does it look fugly in IE 6.

[Peedy]

I think IE8 does

[pc]

Cleo
If you still care or want transparency in PNG to work in older IE versions,this is a nice fix for that.

http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/demo/

[Cleo]

Cleo
If you still care or want transparency in PNG to work in older IE versions,this is a nice fix for that.

http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/demo/
Interesting,
Seems like way too much hassle to give users of old versions of IE a pretty start button in FlowPlayer though.

[pc]

All you need to do is to place this in your <head> section :
<style type="text/css">
img { behavior: url(http://www.domain.com/whatever/css/iepngfix.htc) }
</style>

and have that iepngfix.htc in place
That should do the trick.

I can't check that on my laptop. I don't have IE5 or 6 or 7

Note to anybody with older IE version:
http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/demo/
Is demo image on right side transparent ?

[Cleo]

Just tried it in IE 6. It does some funky things.
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=1912&d=1253116849

[tickler]

I generally just use a filter to make a color transparent, and it works on all image types.

Not sure if it's completely CSS compliant though but works in IE.

To drop red:
filter: chroma(color='#ff0000);

[pc]

http://www.queness.com/post/683/10-awful-ie-bugs-and-fixes

few more handy tricks for crappy IE

[blinki bill]

png transparency work just fine with ie7 and ie8

for older versions like ie6 the best option i think is trough css
instead of having the image in img tag you can just place and empty span and then assign class to this span with the following:


background:url(noimage.gif);
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='path_to_png_image', sizingMethod='scale');


i have a simple piece of js code that makes this automatically for all the png's on the page (just place it before the ending body tag):

if (/MSIE (\d+\.\d+);/.test(navigator.userAgent)){
var ieversion=new Number(RegExp.$1)

if (ieversion == 7)
{
for(var i=0; i<document.images.length; i++)
{
var img = document.images[i]
var imgName = img.src.toUpperCase()
if (imgName.substring(imgName.length-3, imgName.length) == "PNG")
{
var imgID = (img.id) ? "id='" + img.id + "' " : ""
var imgClass = (img.className) ? "class='" + img.className + "' " : ""
var imgTitle = (img.title) ? "title='" + img.title + "' " : "title='" + img.alt + "' "
var imgStyle = "display:inline-block;" + img.style.cssText
if (img.align == "left") imgStyle = "float:left;" + imgStyle
if (img.align == "right") imgStyle = "float:right;" + imgStyle
if (img.parentElement.href) imgStyle = "cursor:hand;" + imgStyle
var strNewHTML = "<span " + imgID + imgClass + imgTitle
+ " style=\"" + "width:" + img.width + "px; height:" + img.height + "px;" + imgStyle + ";"
+ "filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader"
+ "(src=\'" + img.src + "\', sizingMethod='scale');\"></span>"
img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
i = i-1
}
}
}