Comments on: Create Transparent PNGs in IE6 Using AlphaImageLoader & No Hacks

By: núria

núria — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:32:28 +0000

thank you so much!!!

By: .abelafonte

.abelafonte — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:21:33 +0000

You must ensure that your link to IE stylesheets is AFTER your default stylesheet.

Also, you will have better success by referencing images absolutely, not relatively.

For example: use url(/images/truck.png) rather than url(../../images/truck.png)

or wherever your images live.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:56:19 +0000

nice solution. However I had a problem implementing it. It work as inline style or embedded style, but does not work if I put it in external style sheet.
Any help or advise are welcome.
I did check all paths

By: .abelafonte

.abelafonte — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:30:47 +0000

The alphaImageLoader doesn’t take any CSS properties. You cannot specify position, etc.

By: Rohan Chandane

Rohan Chandane — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:31:46 +0000

How can I specify things like – top left no-repeat with alphaImageLoader?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:48:49 +0000

I couldn’t seem to get it to work what so ever..don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I followed the instructions properly

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:44:33 +0000

Great article, and this aint a hack, there’s not a * or zoom or w/ in sight!

By: .abelafonte

.abelafonte — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:40:05 +0000

Your comment lets me know that you’re not a seasoned CSS developer.

If you’ve been around for a while, you would know what we mean by the word “hack” in reference to CSS.

Do some reading, my friend.

By: cd

cd — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:36:50 +0000

Bullocks. How is this method NOT a hack? And how is it any cleaner? If any browser in the future, suddenly starts getting affected by a “hack” it is probably a POS and I won’t care what it sees. On the other hand, you’ll be managing IE specific style sheets for the rest of your life. As browsers become obsolete, the hacks stop having any effect, you’ll just change from using ie6 and ie5.css files to using ie8 and ie9.css files. Good luck with that.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:56:38 +0000

Just want to say great stuff. Just wanted to add something in case people are using this technique and getting stuck.

The “src=’images/mater.png’” part is from the root of your website. So if you are like me, and develop websites in a subfolder until clients ok them to go live, you must specify full address like “src=’http://www.abc.co.uk/Sites/images/mater.png’”

Hope that is clear to understand. Keep up the good work!