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