A Dead-Simple PNG Fix For Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
December 07, 2009
As you know, IE6 does not render transparent PNGs appropriately by default. We can work around it using IE’s proprietary expression CSS property, and there are myriad libraries available to make this easier. However most approaches usually involve creating a separate CSS file for IE6, and most don’t support repeating background images (via the background-repeat CSS property).
We recently stumbled into Drew Diller’s belated PNG fix for IE6, which is the simplest implementation so far, and fully supports repeating background images. All that’s needed is to include a Javascript file and pass an appropriate CSS selector to the library’s fix() function, and the library handles the rest. (more…)
