IE8 gradient filter not working if a background co

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 the background color which I would like to leave set as a fallback color.

section.rgba{
    background-color: #B4B490;
    background-color: rgba(200, 0, 104, 0.4);  
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#99B4B490',EndColorStr='#99B4B490');
    -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#99B4B490',EndColorStr='#99B4B490')";
    zoom: 1
}

I would like to be able to get this to work without having to resort to an IE stylesheet where i set the background color to none. Is this possible?

Anybody know how to fix it?

Answer 1

After glancing over at CSS3please I realized I was doing overkill with my IE7/IE8 gradient styles. Simply using the following style does the job:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#444444', EndColorStr='#999999');

Apparently, there is no need for the -ms-filter and zoom rules.

Answer 2

#element {  
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(black, white); /* FF 3.6+ */  
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(black, white); /* IE10 */  
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #000000), color-stop(100%, #ffffff)); /* Safari 4+, Chrome 2+ */  
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(black, white); /* Safari 5.1+, Chrome 10+ */  
    background: -o-linear-gradient(black, white); /* Opera 11.10 */  
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#000000', endColorstr='#ffffff'); /* IE6 & IE7 */  
    -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#000000', endColorstr='#ffffff')"; /* IE8+ */  
    background: linear-gradient(black, white); /* the standard */  
}  

Answer 3

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