IE8 gradient filter not working if a background color exists

Question

I\'m trying to use the following CSS styles. They are working on most browsers, including ie7. However in ie8, the transparent background does not show and instead I get th

Answer 1

I found I had to change the element from display:inline to display:block before the filter style would work. Also, the color can be specified with a 4-byte sequence where the first byte is opacity, then rgb, ie. #oorrggbb. Eg.

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffA0C848', endColorstr='#ff70A828');
display:block;