Posted by Toby Inkster on 01/19/07 22:18

The Eclectic Electric wrote:

> 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.

Yep -- that's what "opacity" does -- it controls the opacity of the entire
element -- foreground and background.

If you only want the background to be translucent, then try using an
alpha-blended PNG and setting opacity to 1.0.

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