Animating opacity doesn't work in IE or Opera
I'm experimenting with jQuery plugins. I have this code to fade in a "lightbox":

	$('#cleverbox')
		.css({ opacity:0, visibility:'visible' })
		.animate( {opacity:1}, 2000 );

It works fine on Firefox and Chrome, but in IE (7 and 8) and Opera the element just appears rather than being faded in. There are a bunch of similar questions on SO but I have yet to find a solution that works.

I have an [example page][1]. I'm also having a few other problems:

0. In Internet Explorer (7 and 8), the first thumbnail never displays the lightbox (the `onload` event never fires).
0. In IE7, the code to fix the ClearType bug doesn't work. `$(this).css( 'opacity', '' )` should remove the opacity style (in this case, the 'filter' property) but it doesn't remove it. In IE's dev tools it still has `style="filter: ;"`
0. In Opera, it never runs after it has loaded once. In other words, if an image is in the browser cache the `onload` event never fires.


  [1]: http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/cleverbox
Animating opacity doesn't work in IE or Opera
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I'm experimenting with jQuery plugins. I have this code to fade in a "lightbox":

	$('#cleverbox')
		.css({ opacity:0, visibility:'visible' })
		.animate( {opacity:1}, 2000 );

It works fine on Firefox and Chrome, but in IE (7 and 8) and Opera the element just appears rather than being faded in. There are a bunch of similar questions on SO but I have yet to find a solution that works.

I have an [example page][1]. I'm also having a few other problems:

0. In Internet Explorer (7 and 8), the first thumbnail never displays the lightbox (the `onload` event never fires).
0. In IE7, the code to fix the ClearType bug doesn't work. `$(this).css( 'opacity', '' )` should remove the opacity style (in this case, the 'filter' property) but it doesn't remove it. In IE's dev tools it still has `style="filter: ;"`
0. In Opera, it never runs after it has loaded once. In other words, if an image is in the browser cache the `onload` event never fires.


  [1]: http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/cleverbox