[]Dalantech said: <br />The problem with using background images is that they can be hidden if there is a problem with scaling the page or the browser you're using doesn't support all the CSS properties you've asigned to the class that controls the images... <br />[/] <br /> <br />Agreed. I wouldn't call that a problem but a good thing. But I guess this would lead to a religous war... ;-) <br /> <br />[] <br />You also can't asign an html hyperlink to a background image -so how are you going to make the icons active links? By creating a transperent forground image to go over each one? Why bother... <br />[/] <br /> <br />I can't reproduce this. On which browser doesn't this work? Quickly hacking this: http://krow.de/background_link.html works like a charm on my current IE and Mozilla. Or am I missing your point?

You've got text over a background image. Remove the text and see what happens...

Agreed, that's a special feature of IE. However the Buttons I can see here, all do have text on them, so what's the point? And for those that don't, you can always put a nonbraking space as a text on them...