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 translucent area on the background no problem with
> > opacity:0.5, but any text that I put on it is also translucent. It seems
> > that any subsequent divs or classes inhereit the opacity and I can't over
> > ride it. I.E opacity=1.0 means 100% of the 50% of the parent = 50%.
Does this help?:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html
> Is opacity actually part of the CSS spec? I can't find it in the CSS2
> reference sidebar.
I'm pretty sure opacity is new in CSS3.
Cheers,
John
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