Over 10 years ago, IE6 had major problems when dealing with PNG transparency.

In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft continued this comedy of errors years later with Internet Explorer 7 AND years after that with Internet Explorer 8!

In this article, I’ll show you how I fixed the ugly black outline issue with 3 simple words. See the CSS.

Welcome to another article on Building Better Web Pages. This article series comprehensively covers building an HTML document: easily learned, but rarely perfected.

Today’s article covers CSS Sprites. This also means that it covers Javascript preload images, rollover images, hover images, and the old rookie question of, “why do my images blink when I hover over them?” The goal of this article, other than helping you build better web pages, is to catch search engine queries in the preceding sentence and help steer those people in the correct direction.