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

you can use the -ms-filter but i guess its the same issue as opacity if you do filter before -ms-filter it fails se more at:

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html for that theory

so you need to do like this:

background-color: #D5D6D7;
background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(213,214,215) 0%, rgb(251,252,252) 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(213,214,215) 0%, rgb(251,252,252) 100%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(213,214,215) 0%, rgb(251,252,252) 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(213,214,215) 0%, rgb(251,252,252) 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(213,214,215) 0%, rgb(251,252,252) 100%);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(
    linear,
    left bottom,
    left top,
    color-stop(0, rgb(213,214,215)),
    color-stop(1, rgb(251,252,252))
);
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#D5D6D7',EndColorStr='#FBFCFC')";
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#D5D6D7', endColorstr='#FBFCFC');

this works for me

besides that you cant have a 8 char hexcode (hex is latin for six) and on top of this you have the same color to gradient between you have to have different colors

Answer 2

You're using Modernizer wrong. Modernizer places classes on the HTML element; not each individual element. Here's what I used in IE8 to color the SECTION tags.

.rgba section {
    background-color: rgba(200, 0, 104, 0.4);
}
.no-rgba section {
    background-color: #B4B490;
}
.no-cssgradients section {
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#99B4B490',EndColorStr='#99B4B490');
    -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#99B4B490',EndColorStr='#99B4B490')";
    zoom: 1;
}

Answer 3

It appears, you have to put either width or height to DIV CSS for gradient to work in IE 7+ ( at least I had to )

.widget-header {

    text-align: center;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-family: Verdana;
    padding: 8px;
    color: #D20074;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #6F6F6F;
    height: 100%;
    /* Mozilla: */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #E2E2E2); 
    /* Chrome, Safari:*/
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#E2E2E2));
    /* MSIE */
    filter : progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#FFFFFF', endColorstr='#E2E2E2');
    /* Opera 11.10 + */
    background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #E2E2E2);
}

Hope this helps