Show background image in jquery cycle on IE
jQuery Cycle has a bug in IE 7 and 8 where a white background is added to cycle elements. That will override background images. If your cycle object has a background image and you use the cleartype fix, the background won't show. Cycle has a property 'cleartypeNoBg' to address this issue. Set the property to true.
$('.mycycleclass')
.cycle({
fx: 'scrollHorz',
cleartype: true,
cleartypeNoBg: true,
});
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