Dotnetnuke using PNG images with Transparency

Question

I have a Dotnetnuke site where my main logo is a PNG file using transparency. I tried GIF but the quality wasn't good enough.

Anyways it worked great on IE7 but I just saw my site in IE6 and noticed that the transparency isn't working with my logo.

Does anyone know of a quick way to fix this in a dotnetnuke portal?

Answer 1

ie6 doesn't support transparent png's. it isn't a dot net nuke issue. you could try looking into some javascript solutions that help with ie6.

Answer 2

Googling "pngfix" should find a lot of different techniques for enabling alpha transparency in IE6.

One common one is a HTC behaviour file.

Answer 3

I don't know that it's a dot net nuke issue as much as it is ie6. Anyways, here's a site that shows you how to work around IE6's png issues. Hope it helps.

http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6

Answer 4

It has nothing to do with dotNetNuke, it's an IE6 thing. IE6 doesn't do very well with certain transparent PNG.

Answer 5

You can't. IE6 only supports a specific, and visually ugly, version of PNG transparency. I believe its PNG-8.

You can use a conditional comment to handle IE6 differently:

<!--[if IE 6]>
background-image:crappy.gif
<![endif]-->

Answer 6

Thanks everyone for your answers!

There are some discussions regarding this on dotnetnuke.com forums, but I had the wrong date criteria in my search so the reason I didn't see any responses previously and thought I would ask here.

I think I found what I am looking for from a dotnetnuke perspective its a module that you install on your page which fixes this problem automatically. But unfortunately you have to pay for it. (I won't post the link since I don't want people thinking I was am asking just to advertise for them.)

Answer 7

Does anybody know how to add conditional comments to a Dot Net Nuke Skin? E.g:

<!--[if IE]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie.css" /> <![endif]-->

Everytime I parse the skin using Dot Net Nuke it removes the IE so that it reads:

<!--[if]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie.css" /> <![endif]-->

and breaks!

Is there any way to bypass it from parsing the [if IE]?

Does anybody actually enjoy skinning DNN?