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Internet Explorer Doesn’t Match PNG Color to CSS Color

All currently available versions of Internet Explorer incorrectly display colors in PNG images. To work around that, instead of setting a background color, you can use create 1×1 pixel image with the color you want, and set it as a repeating background image.

mouseenter, mouseleave Events for non-IE Browsers

Stephen Stchur has written a script to mimic IE’s proprietary mouseenter and mouseleave Javascript events for non-IE browsers. This is useful when you have one element (B) laying on top of another element (A), and you want to do a mouseover/mouseout on A without the mouseout firing when you hover on B. Quirksmode has articles [...]

Targeting properties to IE6 with Valid CSS

When I’m translating a design to markup I can usually get it to look the same in all the major browsers without too much trouble, but every once in awhile there’s a problem with IE6 that I can’t figure out, or just don’t have the time/energy to deal with the right way. In the [...]