B.35. filter

Internet Explorer for Windows offers this property, which lets you apply static special effects, and animated transitions, to any HTML element.

Inherited: No

B.35.1. Value

Internet Explorer 4 or later for Windows supports a set of 14 static filters and two animated transition filters. Internet Explorer 5.5 or later supports a new filter technology that offers all the filters supported by IE4 and a bunch more besides, with a total of 2 procedural surface filters, 16 static effect filters, and 17 animated transition filters.

Static filters offer effects such as translucent elements, drop shadows, glows, blurs, flips, rotations, lighting, and distortions. Animated transition filters let you wrap an element's change from one appearance ...

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