First: I love this plugin. I am using it for news headlines and for a image gallery!
Secondly: "cleartypeNoBg: true" worked for me for IE6 DIV background color but it was hard to find cause it wasn't on the website at ... http://www.malsup.com/jquery/cycle/options.html Maybe this should be added. On Apr 23, 8:32 am, Shane Riley <shanerileydoti...@gmail.com> wrote: > In case anyone was wondering why, here's the solution from Mike Alsup. > Hope it helps anyone else with the issue. > > "Hi Shane, > > There are two cleartype options inCycle, and unfortunately one of > them is not documented (yet). > > The general purpose of the cleartype logic inCycleis to workaround a > rendering issue in IE when cleartype is enabled on the system. When a > Windows machine has cleartype enabled, IE6/7 render text aliased when > there is an opacity filter applied to an element. In IE6, the effects > of this can be greatly minimized if the element in question has an > explicit background color. > > WhenCycle's'cleartype' option is true thepluginwill attempt to set > a background color on all of the slides to provided better > antialiasing support on IE6. To determine the best bg color, thepluginwalks > up the parent hierarchy until it finds a parent with a > non-transparent background color. If it doesn't find one then it uses > white. In addition, when the cleartype option is true thepluginwill > always try to remove the opacity filter after the transition > completes, this fixes the aliased text on IE7. > > SinceCycleis used in many, many different environments I realized > that there are some cases in which setting a specific background color > is not desirable. A long time ago I added an option called > 'cleartypeNoBg'. When this option is trueCyclewill *not* set a > background color on the slide elements (but it will still remove the > opacity filter after each slide transition). > > In Internet Explorer the default value ofCycle's'cleartype' option > is true in recent versions of theplugin. > > So to use the undocumented option you would do this: > > $('#slideshow').cycle({ > cleartypeNoBg: true > > }); > > Hope this helps with the problem you're having. > > Mike" > > On Apr 22, 6:00 pm, Shane Riley <shanerileydoti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've been using Mike Alsup'sCyclepluginon a large number of > > projects, and one of the most recent ones is giving me trouble in IE. > > In this example, the slide container seems to have a background color > > applied to it, and there is neither a background property added to it > > nor is there any background property in the CSS for the slide element > > or its children. I finally decided to recreate the effect from scratch > > to make sure it wasn't some strange IE bug or the markup, and the from- > > scratch version works no problem. Here are the two examples, both are > > in the "past lectures" module: > > >http://shaneriley.info/fldc/(withCycleplugin)http://shaneriley.info/fldc/index_custom.html > > > Anyone have any idea why this is happening? I haven't seen this happen > > before, however I may be using a more recent version than usual.
