Hi!
 
I've been struggling with this issue for a day or two now and have decided it's about time i seeked professional guidance..
 
I have background-images and normal images within divs (within another div) for which the transparency is black (only) in IE (tested IE7 and IE8). It works fine with Firefox and Opera. Other images are fine outside of this multi div container, whether background images or not..
 
The main difference is these images are called via xmlhttprequests and echoed to an innerhtml (unsure of relevance). These are however the only images within divs on this page so perhaps this is the problem? I've done some testing and narrowed it down to a client side error so i have to guess css because i'm just beginning looking into it..
 
I've done a fair bit of reading around and have tried IE6 transparency fixes but they don't help. I also tried these tips:
 
http://www.viart.com/transparent_png24_show_up_black_in_ie_and_firefox.html
 
but still can't seem to get it to work. IE still picks up the html code rather than the css.
 
Any suggestions? If you need to take a look at my code, let me know and i'll leave the relevant snippets.
 
Thanks ;)

problem resolved.. boy do i feel dumb :S

How did you fix it?

i had javascript methods which faded the content of the divs in onLoad, once i'd disabled these it all worked fine.
 
im guessing it was because the javascript method didn't use alphaimageloader or the ie compatible filters for transparency..
 
basically if i hadn't spent the time implementing these silly javascript image effects i wouldn't have been so stubborn to disable them in order to test it when i first found the problem..