CSS box in Internet Explorer

Question

I've a rendering problem to show a box with background image and border image in IE8 IE7 IE6

My code works in IE9, Safari, Firefox.

.myBox {
background : url(image-left.gif) left no-repeat,url(image-right.gif) right no-repeat, url(images-center.png) repeat-x;
height: 50px;
position:relative;
}

I've founded a solution to put left and right image in a table:

CSS:

table {
    height: 50px;
    position:relative;
}

.myBox {
    background : url(images-center.png) repeat-x; 
}

html:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td><img src="image-left.gif" /></td>

    <td>my content text</td>

    <td><img src="image-right.gif" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

Anyone have a better and elegant solution????

Answer 1

Here are two ways to do it

• Cross-Browser Multi-background images, including IE , CSS way to do it ( as claimed by adobe, haven't tried it myself.. )
• A jquery plugin to fix it, although from the comments i am not so sure it works in all cases

Of-course your method is valid just as well, although it causes you to change your markup..