Why use filter if you don’t support modern browsers anyway?

[mathiasbynens]

From the gradients section:

filter: e(%("progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='%d', endColorstr='%d', GradientType=0)",@startColor,@endColor)); // IE6 & IE7

On the other hand, if you do want this to work in IE6 and IE7, you could just drop the -ms-filter declaration, as filter works in any IE6+.

[fat]

We're using it for ie 7+ support now :)

[mathiasbynens]

Not so fast! :)

There’s still one occurence of -ms-filter that could/should be omitted:

-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#00000000', endColorstr='#15000000')";
filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#00000000', endColorstr='#15000000')";

Just the filter will do.

[fat]

i believe -ms-filter is for ie8 http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html

[mathiasbynens]

No it’s not. Try it.

[fat]

"If you don’t use this order, IE8-as-IE7 doesn’t apply the opacity, although IE8 and a pure IE7 do."

[fat]

Hm... that might just be with the opacity though... I'll check.

[fat]

8a27d28

thanks for hassling me on this ;D

[mathiasbynens]

If you don’t use this order, IE8-as-IE7 doesn’t apply the opacity, although IE8 and a pure IE7 do.

Don’t believe the hype! Always try it out for yourself.

thanks for hassling me on this ;D

No problem :)