Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/19/07 17:15

The Eclectic Electric wrote:
> Has anyone had any success exploiting the CSS opacity attribute?
>
> I've created a menu bar and given it opacity, but I was hoping that I would
> be able to set the transparency of the elements within. So far, no success.
> My best guess was to set the background of the "child" divs to transparent
> and set opacity to 1.0 but it didn't work. Without this I'm stuck to near
> opaque values. It's not a biggy as IE doesn't support it anyway, but it
> would be nice to set the background opacity to, say 0.4 and have the text at
> 1.0.

Are you talking about the ugly face seen under the menu on the left side?
It seems to work fine in SeaMonkey and Opera, Konqueror don't apply
transparency on the menu. My suggestion is to ditch MSIE.

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//Aho

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