This is exactly what I needed. Had no idea what was going on when the slide mysteriously had a background color that matches a div three levels up in the hierarchy. I guess there's no fix for the lack of transparency with this attribute set?
On May 11, 1:37 pm, Maksym Melnyk <momel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's the solution from the Mike Alsup. > > "Hi Shane, > > There are two cleartype options in Cycle, and unfortunately one of > them is not documented (yet). > > The general purpose of the cleartype logic in Cycle is 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. > > When Cycle's 'cleartype' option is true the plugin will attempt to set > a background color on all of the slides to provided better > antialiasing support on IE6. To determine the best bg color, the > plugin walks 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 the plugin will > always try to remove the opacity filter after the transition > completes, this fixes the aliased text on IE7. > > Since Cycle is 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 true Cycle will *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 of Cycle's 'cleartype' option > is true in recent versions of the plugin. > > 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 May 8, 11:03 pm, Chris <weonlyhavesoluti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am having a problem with IE6 and thecycleplugin. In IE6 it shows a > > black background over my div background image (I set via css a > > background image to a master div). cleartype set to false, > > cleartypeNoBg to true. I am cycling transparent png images. In IE7+ > > and Firefox everything is ok. > > > Any tip? > > > Thanks > > Chris