No More Flicker: IE6 CSS Image Flicker Fix
September 29th, 2006
Big news in August slipped below my radar. What’s the fuss? There’s now a fix for a small but frustrating problem that has plagued CSS designers ever since the release if Internet Explorer 6.
When a mouse rolls over a link that the designer has styled with a background Image, IE6 shows a flicker as it changes states. Though there were cumbersome fixes, nothing was available that worked simply and elegantly.
Enter Dan Popa’s IE6 Image Flicker solution. A simple Javascript snippet placed in your HTML document’s head element fixes the caching problem completely!
Here’s the code:
javascript:void(document.
execCommand("BackgroundImageCache",false,true))
Thanks Dan!
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1. blogx » Blog Archiv&hellip | October 7th, 2006 at 2:10 am
[...] So I’ve got my re-work of the web site mostly working, and thought about checking around for the best way to pre-load some images on pages other than the page a person is on, when I ran across Harvey’s post that lead to Dan’s page with a more browser centric solution using javascript. [...]