I know that Internet Explorer has some proprietary extensions so that you can do things like create divs with a gradient background. I can\'t remember the element name or i
The filter style should work for IE8 and IE9.
filter
.gradientClass { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(GradientType=0,startColorstr='#e6e6e6', endColorstr='#CCCCCC'); }