Animate opacity doesn't work properly on IE

Question

I\'m trying to use animate() to change the height and opacity of a div. The div has an image background in CSS. It works fine on Firefox and Safari

Answer 1

Very (very) late with the answer, but as this is at the top of Google when I looked for help with a jquery v animate issue in IE8 I thought i'd post it here.

My problem was connected to the hasLayout bug in IE, and adding "display: inline-block" to the element to be faded fixed the problem.