IE8: Div hover only works when background color is set, very strange, why?

Question

Situation: Got a div with buttons images. Div needs to fadeIn on hover. Works in all browsers, except Internet Explorer. When I give the div a background co

Answer 1

This is due to has layout. Using position:relative will give the same result without use of a unwanted background image.

Answer 2

I recently ran in to this problem also. I also solved it by adding a 1 by 1 px transparent background image to the hover element. I felt like taking a shower afterwards.