IE8 No PNG images at all???

[rchadwic]

I just discovered I am having the same problem. Nothing that's a .png image will get through on IE8 for me. I also note that all images on this site are png's...... And further, looking at the thread I get the impression that there's no commonly accepted cure for this. Surely that can not be. Can someone please provide some help to me?

Bob Chadwick
Palm Bay, FL

[maxwellunlimited]

I had the same problem with some .png images using default vista install with all automatic upgrades to ie8. The problem existed only in some images which led to the explanation.

It seems my version of ie8 is not actually rendering any .png images with transparency. Instead it replaces the background of the image with either the color of an image that it overlays (can be a multitude of colors), or the color of the HTML object it overlays (if the property is set).

The fix was to add the CSS background-color attribute to the images themselves, such as img { background-color:#fff; }
I specified this only for images that had no background color for any object beneath them. All the other images mimicked transparency.

[weegillis]

The fix was to add the CSS background-color attribute to the images themselves, such as img { background-color:#fff; }
I specified this only for images that had no background color for any object beneath them. All the other images mimicked transparency.

This may stem from an earlier 'problem' with background color as it pertains to css images in the background. In both long and shorthand forms, the color should always precede the image URL.

Once I learned this, the rule became: foreground, background color, image url in all instances.

CSS

color: blue;
background: #ccc url(some-img.png) no-repeat 0% 0%;