This is a very simple technique that most web designers need to be able to use, Internet Explorer causes headaches with web designers all around the world, when I see people having issues I feel their pain!

On this website if you are viewing in Firefox, Safari basically anything thats not Internet Explorer you will see a transparent navigation and transparent content. If viewing in IE you will notice its just a solid black.

I was having an issue where in IE the transparent code I was using would cause no colour to be shown, just a big fully transparent div. To fix this problem I needed to tell the browser that if the users browser is IE then give the div tag’s a background colour of 000.

This is the code I used:

As you can see that says to the browser if the user is using IE add background-colour to #main and #welcome. Leave a comment if you found this helpful.