IE8: Div hover only works when background color is set, very strange, why?

Question

Situation: Got a div with buttons images. Div needs to fadeIn on hover. Works in all browsers, except Internet Explorer. When I give the div a background co

Answer 1

Even with the latest version of IE9 I have this same issue. As MeProtozoan suggested, adding a transparent background image to the anchor(s) gets the behavior working as desired, but damn it's dirty.