transluscency?

[The Alien]

Ah, I hadn't noticed it was fixed in IE7. Thanks for pointing it out, maak

Last I heard, png transparency still was not supported. But I guess that was probably the IE7 beta or something. Glad to see it working. Now to wait for the rest of the IE users to upgrade to IE7

[WolfMoonHP]

Now to wait for the rest of the IE users to upgrade to IE7

I've been spotting a little notice on a number of pages saying "This Site Best Viewed With Internet Explorer v. 7"

[Wizzard]

Export your image as a .png (true color + alpha) and it should be transparent.
In IE, you need to additionally apply a style to the img tag:

<img src="" style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='whatever.png', enabled='true')" />

Replace the whatever.png by your source

If you do what The Alien says but use an in line style sheet and the use the <!--[if lt IE 7]><![endif]--> statements to enclose the filter style. I'll upload an example that sould be cross browser compatible if you like.

[Wizzard]

potion this is how to do translucent shadow in ie6 ie7 etc. I've just created a tiny web page to show Alien's idea in action.

[amoore]

Wizzard, I've looked at your webpage in both FireFox and Opera, and all I see is the background. The word "Test" does show up in IE6.

Since the fix only works in IE, it seems like it's not really a "fix".

[Wizzard]

Woops I'll try again bit of prat forgot to test it in firefox

[Wizzard]

Try that!

I think it will need some king tutorial I you like which I have a go at over christmas if you like.

[amoore]

Much better.

[The Alien]

Try that!

I think it will need some king tutorial I you like which I have a go at over christmas if you like.

Hey Wizzard, I tried that and it works both in IE7 and FF. Thanks
I've been meaning to ask: I'm very familiar with javascript, but I've never seen the sort of syntax you use with the comment tags combined with "[...]", like:
<!--[if gte IE 5.5]>

What kind of syntax is that? Any general/background info would be appreciated, so I can google for the details myself. I'm currently working on a webdesign project and want to explore the cross-browser usability of .png's
(I'm currently using .gif's, which look very speckled after exporting them from Xara. If using .png's would really work for all browsers, I'm seriously gonna consider that!!)

[Wizzard]

<!--[if gte IE 5.5]>

its a little documented IE thing specially to let us put fixes specificly for versions of IE and appears as comments in all other browsers.