I have a problem with the IE (what else?):
I generate content with CSS which has also a background-image.
I looks like that:
#nav ul li:after {
content: "--";
position: relative;
z-index: 99;
background: transparent url(image.png);
color: transparent;
}
The text color is in non-IE-browsers transparent, but in all IE browsers (IE6-IE8) it's black and you could see it.
How could I make the text transparent/unvisible?
I tried already: visibility - opacity - filter - text-indent ...
But none did his job right, either it disappears (with it background which I need) or the attribute doesn't apply.
if what you're trying to do is show the image as background and not showing the text use
font-size:0px
it works!
what about using line-height
line-height:0;
it worked in my case.
I get it: With the correct padding and a zero font-size! Set the padding-left value to be one pixel beyond the image width.
If this doesn't work in Internet Explorer 8
font-size: 0;
make sure you're using a valid doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html>
This should work. If it doesn't add display: block or inline-block
.transparent {
text-indent: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
}
I think no versions of IE support color: transparent
Perhaps you could try to do it with jQuery or something like that.
I assume you already fixed this, but lately i've used a very large line-height, when text-indent is giving me layout problems, combined with overflow: hidden to hide the text.
IE doesn't support li:after consistently. Which IE are you talking about? IE6? IE7? Both?
For me color:transparent was not working in IE8, and it was showing text with default color. I used visibility:hidden; for IE8 only as the text was not required to display.
Hope this help in case, if the element is not required to display.
I see you're using a PNG as your background image. Normally, if you're using IE 6, there is a fix for PNG transparency (http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/). Even so, this will not work with background-images. So if you're using IE 6, there really isn't a fix.
