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Hello,

Open up this site in IE8:

http://www.bavarianblue.com

See the white background? Any ideas what is causing that? I tried assigning a clear gif to it, and nothing changed. Works great in Chrome and FF

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Help please : )

A: 

I have investigated and come to a solution

#spotlight .slide{
 background: url("images/featured_bg.png");
}
JapanPro
A: 

On your <div class="slide"> set the background-color: Transparent

ferrari fan
A: 

the first div in #spotlight has a backgound-color:#ffffff; set as inline-style (which can easily be seen by using the developer-tool (F12)) - remove that and you'll get what you expect.

oezi
Don't remove that since the transition effect will look crap in IE - just change the color to what it is supposed to be.
easwee
+4  A: 

If you use the Developer Tools in IE8 (Keyboard shortcut F12) and inspect the element with the white background you will notice the following inline style applied to the element:

<div class="slide" style="z-index: 5; position: absolute; background-color: #ffffff; zoom: 1; display: block; top: 0px; left: 0px;" cycleH="277" cycleW="500" jQuery1285163831375="11">

What is generating the HTML for you? I assume it's JQuery UI?

delimited
Not sure... it's a WP theme that I am hacking the heck out, whoever originally wrote it took some shortcuts. This should be me down the right path
Jared
Found the problem - it was in the JS. Thanks for the suggestion!
Jared
+1  A: 

In IE the <div class="slide"> gets a style="background-color:#fff;". This is a fix for IE to make the fade transition text smooth and not jagged. Find where the color is being set and replace it with your bg color (probably in the .js or where you call the slide plugin)

easwee
Your answer was right as well! thanks!
Jared