Sorry Tom L. Sent this to you instead of the list. Anyway, you need an overlay div if you're trying to simulate layers. Makes for css that is easier to read, in my opinion.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Tom Livingston Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:36 AM To: COM Cc: CSS-Discuss Subject: Re: [css-d] background image AND background color? You won't get PhotoShop "multiply" layer effects exactly, but using a 24bit png for your image with areas of alpha transparency to allow the bg color to come through is as close as u can get I believe. HTH — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:54 AM, COM <j...@coffeeonmars.com> wrote: > On Jun 19, 2013, at 8:37 AM, David Laakso <laakso.davi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For those among us who dwell in the visual world, one picture is worth >> a thousand words... a click able link to your coded page would help. > A link to the page in question is here: > http://coffeeonmars.com/test/flextest/flextest.html > the part I'm talking about is at top, where it says "heading one" and > "heading two"; behind them in the <header> is a jpg of what looks like some > light texture. in the css is also a background color for that element: a red > at 0.4 alpha. > my goal is to have the texture image's color influenced by that background > color, IOW, by varying the opacity of the color, the image would have more or > less of a reddish cast to it. > Thank you! > John > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
