How to put color behind text, and how to have an animated gif rollover button

Acorn, it works fine in FF but good old IE just doesn't do anything, that's probably why Artyboots is no seeing it.

IE 10 can display the shadow effect. But at least on earlier versions it fails gracefully.

And here I thought the thread was about the background-color property. That property is supported in IE versions back to 7 or maybe 6.

Mike