Strange IE Javascript-CSS Issue

Nothing should be labeled as “strange” when it comes to IE anymore, but I find this one particularly peculiar.

Here’s the CSS:

[code]
#header li a {
display: block;
padding: 15px 30px 5px 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #000;
font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
background: url(layout/pngsprites.png) -160px -232px no-repeat;
}
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Here’s the Javascript (using jQuery) where elem is a jquery object reference the #header li a element:
[code
var bgpos_ = elem.css(‘backgroundPosition’).split(” “);
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Works fine in browsers other than IE. So I went a bit deeper into it, I tried specifically declaring the background-position property in the CSS in hopes that IE could find it:

[code]
background: url(layout/pngsprites.png) -160px -232px no-repeat;
background-position: -160px -232px;
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But nothing….then I even tried using plain old JS to get it using the style property:

[code]
alert(elem.get(0).style.backgroundPositiong);
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But IE still played foul.

I googled around, figuring this was a common issue, but I haven’t found anything……what’s the fix?

EDIT: [url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/594870/fix-for-background-position-in-ie[/url]

Apparently it only supports the non-standard background-position-[x|y]

Final code (again in jQuery):

[code]
this.bgy = (elem.css(‘background-position-x’)) ? parseInt(elem.css(‘background-position-y’)) : parseInt(elem.css(‘backgroundPosition’).split(” “)[1]);
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