IE9 issue border radius and linear gradient

Question

I have used CSS PIE and filters to overcome the issue of border radius and linear gradient in IE9 with CSS, but I am not satisfied with the result. Is there any way to implement border radius with linear gradient?

Answer 1

Yup: implement the linear gradient in IE9 using an SVG background image.

A few of the online gradient generators will provide this option in their output. See eg http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ (check the “IE 9 support” checkbox underneath the results checkbox).

Thankfully, SVG backgrounds are clipped by border-radius in IE 9, unlike gradients implemented with filter .