IE8 CSS background flickering

12Mar/1011

IE8 CSS background flickering

Combination of white content on a black background causes an uncomfortable flickering or flashing in Internet Explorer 8. I resolved this problem adding following lines of code into head of XHTML page:

<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=.01)" />
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=.01)" />
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
try
{
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
}
catch(err) {}
</script>

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Nerone
March 26th, 2010 - 10:38

i don’t know how, but IT WORKS!
thank you so much ^^
alex
March 28th, 2010 - 21:03

Thanks! it works
Pat
April 6th, 2010 - 22:22

Thanks, works for me too.
kane
April 22nd, 2010 - 21:38

awesome fix, it gets rid of the window flashing white, but im getting a nasty little FOUC on some tab images on the page….
kane
April 22nd, 2010 - 21:43

changed

to

still seems to work and got rid of the FOUC. man i hate IE.
kate
May 24th, 2010 - 05:56

Thankyou sooooooooooo much!! Tried a heap of things but finally this works.
Pedro
June 23rd, 2010 - 18:38

I love you mate. It WORKS!!!!!!!!!!
Dinho
July 21st, 2010 - 00:40

It doesn’t seem to work on win7 with IE8, it works on all browser on Vista though…

Any idea’s?
Dave
September 1st, 2010 - 22:25

Arrgg… I need to see Kane’s comment (22-Apr-2010 21:43), but your comment processor seems to have stripped out his code!

I’m having the same thing. Adding this code fixes the flickering issue, but creates a flash of unstyled content.
Donnie Jones
February 15th, 2011 - 22:47

Thanks so much! Spent over an hour looking for a solution. Several meta hacks and javascript hacks are littered all over the internets, but this is the only one that worked for me. Thanks again!
Pramodh
December 10th, 2011 - 06:42

HI John!

Good work, You saved me.