[SLUG] OT: solid text on translucent background

2004-09-12 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, After no luck googling for a solution I've decided to post this possibly off topic question to the wisdom of slug (well the web server is apache on Linux and the client is Mozilla or Firefox on Linux). I'm trying to create an area on a web page with a translucent background but with s

Re: [SLUG] OT: solid text on translucent background

2004-09-12 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:43 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > > After no luck googling for a solution I've decided to post this possibly > off topic question to the wisdom of slug (well the web server is apache on > Linux and the client is Mozilla or Firefox on Linux). > > I'm trying to

Re: [SLUG] OT: solid text on translucent background

2004-09-12 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:09:00 +1000, James Gregory wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:43 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > > I'm trying to create an area on a web page with a translucent background > > but with solid text inside that area. I'm trying to do it using a style > > sheet. I can get the t

Re: [SLUG] OT: solid text on translucent background

2004-09-13 Thread Peter Rundle
Does this help?: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html Unfortunately no, it does cause the text back to opaque but the transparency of the background under the text also disappears. Seems that opacity is "still in development" so I've set the opacity to 0.8 and even though the text is a