Input boxes with transparent background are not clickable in IE8

Question

I have an absolutely positioned input box in a form. The input box has transparent background:

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Answer 1

Here is a very simple test case:

When running in IE8 - you should see the focus on the underlying textbox instead on the absolutely positioned textbox.

Our solution was to set both transparent background color and transparent background image: