Background-size property equivalent to IE

Is there an equivalent to backgrou开发者_C百科nd-size:cover in IE pre-version 9? I have a book on CSS3 that just seems to say previous versions of IE just don't use this property and they don't give a workaround.

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Apparently, you could use the following (untested)

pre IE8 use -

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='linkToImage.jpg',sizingMethod='scale');

IE8 use -

-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='linkToImage.jpg',sizingMethod='scale')";

Using the sizingMethod= 'scale' means that even IE will scale the background image to the size of the browser window.

Source: http://www.pziecina.com/design/turorial_demos/resize_background.php