fadeTo doesnt work in IE7 and IE8 for position different from static aplied in child element faded

[alexanmtz]

As you can see in live example: ​http://jsfiddle.net/FRbyf/6/

The fadeIn or any opacity animation doesn't work when applied in element that his child have a position different from static.

All browsers work as expected except IE7 and IE8.

[anonymous]

fadeIn and fadeOut also don't work

[domas.trijonis@…]

It fails because jquery sets only filter property. To make this work correctly "-ms-filter" has to be set.

[addyosmani]

Confirming this is still an issue in IE7/8 ​http://cl.ly/2H240T3c2a0g4333050U

[chee]

Just confirming this is still an issue with jQuery 1.8.2, IE8: ​http://jsfiddle.net/FRbyf/25/ ​https://snaek.org/resources/43d2c6ccf5c61113bf911f649bbf7241da0703e7.png

[dmethvin]

@mikesherov this ended up being assigned to you. I'm inclined to wontfix it, what do you think?

[m_gol]

@dmethvin: can't we just use -ms-filter apart from filter? We can remove filter anyway in 1.13.

[dmethvin]

@m_gol, not sure. According to Microsoft, -ms-filter only applies in IE8/9 and in IE8 it's a synonym for filter. ​http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms530752(v=vs.85).aspx

Since we're dropping IE6/7 support soon perhaps the problem has been simplified. Do you want to grab this ticket and see if you can come up with a fix?

[m_gol]

@dmethvin I meant 1.13 not 1.12. Still, -ms-filter is better as its syntax conforms to CSS rules and filter certainly does not. I'll grab this ticket & check the effect.

[m_gol]

Migrated to ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/1723