background gradients in IE7 with CSS

Question

I am using the following bit of CSS to create a linear background gradient. It seems to work just fine in IE8/9, FF, Safari and chrome but not in IE7. IE7 shows a solid (gre

Answer 1

The correct syntax is:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient
(startColorstr=#550000FF, endColorstr=#55FFFF00)

This is supported by IE4>

See the MSDN source here.