Posted by The Eclectic Electric on 01/19/07 19:04

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>

It was an image that was to hand!

I've set the opacity to 0.4 now to demonstrate what I mean more clearly.
The text is made transparent too, as I suppose it should be looking at the
draft W3C spec.

I honestly don't think it can be done, but thanks for having a look anyway.

+e

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