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In our SharePoint 2013 site we have custom theme aware CSS, most of which is working fine across browsers (IE8/9/10, Safari and Firefox) but in case of
/* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"SelectionBackground")] */ background-color:rgba( 156,206,240,0.5 )
IE8 is not rendering the background style to the style sheet and hence no background color on selection is applied.
Can some one please suggest possible cause/resolution to this issue.

PS - I m new to SharePoint 2013 theme engine.

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I don't have a virtual machine with IE 8 at my disposal right now, but according to http://caniuse.com/css3-colors IE 8 does not support RGBa color values. Looks like you have to resort to a HEX value for IE 8 and below.

UPDATE ** To get something going in IE 8, you could use the MSFT opacity filter like this:

body
{
/* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"SelectionBackground")] */ background-color:rgb( 156,206,240)
  filter: alpha(opacity=50);
  -ms-filter: alpha(opacity=50);
}

It will be ignored by all modern browsers (including IE 9 & 10) except IE 8 and below.

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  • Agree with you Sig, IE8 wont support RGBa and after bit of searching I found here stackoverflow.com/questions/3975688/… that opacity wont work in IE8.
    – bkk
    Commented May 17, 2013 at 11:44
  • IIRC, for IE8 you could try the MSFT proprietary filter property. See my updated answer.
    – Sig Weber
    Commented May 17, 2013 at 13:17

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