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CSS rounded corners in IE8

I'm having issues with rounded corners in IE8. I've tried a few methods without success.

Here is my code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>

<style>
body {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 2px;
  margin: 2px;
  color: #505050;
  line-height: normal;
}
p {
  margin: 4px;
}
.categoryheading3 {
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px;
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 5px;
  -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
  -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
  background-color: #297BB6;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  font-size: 16px;
  font-weight: 700;
  padding: 8px 0;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0px;
}
.leftcolumn {
  width: 174px;
  padding: 8px;
  float: left;
  display: inline-block;
  background-color: transparent;
  /*--min-height: 500px*/
  overflow: hidden;
}
.lefttop {
  display: inline-block;
  width: inherit;
  margin: 0 5px 2em 0;
  float: left;
  width: 160px;
  background-color: #FFFFFF;
  border: 2px solid #297BB6;
  -moz-border-radius: 10px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
  border-radius: 10px;
}
</style>


</head>
<body>

<div class="leftcolumn">
  <div class="lefttop">
    <H4 class="categoryheading3">Heading</H4>
    <p>sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text </p>
  </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Which produces this in Firefox:

firefox example

But this in IE8:

IE8 makes me sad

If anyone has any tips I'd be very grateful!

edit: Joseph helped by suggesting to use pie.htc, however I'm still struggling with this element not working:

.categoryheading3 {
  -moz-border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
  -webkit-border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
  behavior: url(PIE.htc);
  background-color: #297BB6;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  font-size: 16px;
  font-weight: 700;
  padding: 8px 0;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0px;
}
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falter Avatar asked Aug 16 '11 11:08

falter


3 Answers

Rounded corners in IE8

Internet Explorer 8 (and earlier versions) doesn't support rounded corners, however there are few other solutions you may consider:

  • Use Rounded Corners Images instead (this generator is a good resource)

  • Use a jQuery Corner plugin from here

  • Use a very good script called CSS3 PIE from here (Pro's & Con's here)

  • Checkout CSS Juice from here

  • Another good script is IE-CSS3 from here

Even though CSS PIE is the most popular solution, I'm suggesting you to review all other solutions and choose what works best for your needs.

Hope it was useful. Good Luck!

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Lior Elrom Avatar answered Oct 24 '22 02:10

Lior Elrom


Internet Explorer (under version 9) does not natively support rounded corners.

There's an amazing script that will magically add it for you: CSS3 PIE.

I've used it a lot of times, with amazing results.

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Joseph Silber Avatar answered Oct 24 '22 01:10

Joseph Silber


I didnt know about css3pie.com, a very useful site after seeing this post:

But what after testing it out it didnt work for me either. However I found that wrapping it in the .PHP file worked fine. So instead of:

behavior: url(PIE.htc);

use this:

behavior: url(PIE.php);

I put mine in a folder called jquery, so mine was:

 behavior: url(jquery/PIE.php);

So goto their downloads or get it here:

http://css3pie.com/download-latest

And use their PHP file. Inside the PHP file it explains that some servers are not configured for proper .HTC usage. And that was the problem I had.

Try it! I did, it works. Hope this helps others out too.

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Chud37 Avatar answered Oct 24 '22 02:10

Chud37