Title: IE9 background problem Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # IE9 background problem * Resolved [darwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darwood/) * (@darwood) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie9-background-problem/) * I would first like to say thank you for creating a wonderful widget. It was exactly what i was looking for. * I appear to be having a problem with the background color of the rotating tweets. While in Chrome, Safari, Firefox it is showing as transparent, that is the way i want it. In IE9 i am getting a black background. * url of my site: [http://www.gaveroid.com](http://www.gaveroid.com) * I have made use of the yourstyle.css. While i am able to change the color of the background using background-color i cannot get IE9 to go transparent. Thank you in advanced for your help. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rotatingtweets/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rotatingtweets/) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Author [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/) * (@mpntod) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie9-background-problem/#post-3530612) * I don’t have any immediate answers to this – because (as far as I know) Rotating Tweets doesn’t do anything to the background colour. * However the jQuery.cycle script does make some background changes. * What happens if you add * `cleartypeNoBg: true,` * at around lines 38 and 65 to the `/js/rotating_tweets.js` javascript? * Thread Starter [darwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darwood/) * (@darwood) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie9-background-problem/#post-3530623) * Works like a charm. Thank you ever so much for providing me with such a quick and simple solution. * Plugin Author [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/) * (@mpntod) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie9-background-problem/#post-3530638) * Cool. * It means that (for some reason), your site is displaying in [Quirks mode](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode)– and that it will (now) look very odd in IE6 with a fade transition (as per [this](http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/options.html))– which, since you’re not using it, probably isn’t a problem! * Stopping quirks mode can be a bit of a pain – but is probably worth doing. There’s nothing obvious to cause it except perhaps the line-break in the middle of * ``` ``` * It may be enough to remove the line break or change this to * ``` ``` * … which leaves the question of whether to build the `cleartypeNoBg: true,` flag into the main code. I don’t know how many sites have fade transitions and are being viewed in IE6! * Plugin Author [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/) * (@mpntod) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie9-background-problem/#post-3530695) * As a PS, I looked at IE6 traffic on my own website for the last year – and have now built this setting into the main plug-in. So you won’t have to edit the HTML every time the plug-in upgrades! 🙂 * (Cue hordes of disgruntled IE6 users…) * Thread Starter [darwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darwood/) * (@darwood) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie9-background-problem/#post-3530718) * Martin thanks again. I took your suggestion and changed the DOCTYPE. I tried removing the “cleartypeNoBg: true” to see what would happen and the black border came back. Although if i chose compatibility mode from IE9 it went away. My site seems to be behaving correctly now for the best part. Thanks. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘IE9 background problem’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/rotatingtweets.svg) * [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rotatingtweets/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rotatingtweets/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rotatingtweets/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rotatingtweets/reviews/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [darwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darwood/) * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie9-background-problem/#post-3530718) * Status: resolved