brian wrote:
> David Hucklesby wrote:
>> Emanuele Venezia wrote:
>>> Wouldn't it be enough to use a semi-transparent image as background for the 
>>> contained
>>> div? (it would be CSS21 compliant, too)
>>>
>> Absolutely. Sadly, though, the most used browser today, IE6, will not
>> apply alpha transparency to repeated background images. To my
>> knowledge, anyway - not even with "PNG Fix":
>>
>>  <http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/>
> 
> That's not true. The part you've been missing is the sizingMethod param 
> to AlphaImageLoader() [1]. You need to scale it.


Yes, but you cannot stretch any image that is more complex. Stretching a 
marguerite my look like a rose, though.

> ... [5] Admittedly, this filter is not the panacea it may seem. It has been 
> known to cause much gnashing of teeth with regard to, say, links no 
> longer working. Another exercise for the reader, i guess.

http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/alphatransparency.html


Ingo




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