Posted by Sherm Pendley on 07/23/07 21:31

Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> writes:

> On 2007-07-23, jakeatkins via WebmasterKB.com <u35973@uwe> wrote:
>> I'm looking for some kind of effect where the text/images shown in a frame
>> will gradually fade to black within 25 pixels of the top and bottom border of
>> the frame while scrolling. Can this be inserted this into a style.css file?
>> Thanks!
>
> You could make a graduated black image that goes from fully transparent
> at the bottom to fully opaque at the top and superimpose it over the top
> of the frame with absolute positioning.

That was my first thought as well. But, a gradient alpha channel means PNG;
GIF has only one-bit alpha and JPEG none at all. Doesn't IE have "issues"
with its support for PNG?

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