How to maintain PNG alpha transparency when using “-ms-filter” property

Question

I have the following HTML:

 Some text

And this css:

a:hover
{
    -ms-fi         


        

Answer 1

Just embellishing SpliFF's answer, I could fix this problem by adding the following jQuery to my page:

$(function() {
    if (jQuery.browser.msie)
        $('img[src$=".png"]').each(function() { // must have quotes around .png
            this.style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src="+this.src+",sizingMethod='scale')";
        });
});

This will apply the AlphaImageLoader too all PNGs in the page.