Text fields not displayed in IE7

For the record, I am having the same problem and it is at least partially a css issue on two fronts - text rendering and opacity for the slide-text background. You can normally fix the latter fairly easily by using IE's filter tag (e.g. filter: alpha(opacity=70); but for the me this was only a partial fix as the background remains opaque at the end of any jquery cycle no matter what I try. My inability to prevent this from happening may or may not be related to the invisible text, but it is certainly not helping matters. In any case, you can try setting this to display:none (for the background tag only) while you troubleshoot the text itself.

On this front, you may try changing your text color temporarily to something that can be seen against any area of you site and then troubleshooting with the css - make the font huge and then start playing with margins, etc. In my case, it turns out that the text actually was there, just offset in the normal IE (read: totally ****ed up) fashion. HOWEVER, this is only part of the problem as well since the text only appears for a fraction of a second before disappearing again. Quite frustrating!!

I hope this helps you get a little further, but remain hopeful that someone will come along and offer some better advice.

Progress! The big advice floating around for the IE6 fix comes from the excellent post from Jennifer Boutell with regards to the .clear-block-front {display: block} fix. The problem with regards to the div.clear-block-front {position: relative ! important;} portion is that depending on your theme this may spread beyond the intended fix. For me, simply killing this portion of (just for IE6) brought my text back. Hope this helps!