Sent by Larry Israel on 6 February 2005 21:09
> The desired result: To get a semi-transparent background of a <div> (or
> other element, especially list elements) and yet keep the 100% opacity
> of the inner text.
You could use PNG images, tho IE doesn't support semi-transparency.
Instead, you can probably achieve what you want using an old-fashioned
transparent GIF, with only *some* of the pixels made transparent.
Yesterday, Bryce Fields posted about this (subject: trasparency of a table):
> However, you can create opacity affects using gifs that are checkered
> w/ transparent pixels that will work for everyone. (See the left
> menu at http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/3-column.html
> for an example of the checkered .gif transparency.)
I'm sure there is more info at many URLs, tho I don't have one handy. But
it's a pretty easy technique to understand.
> After several attempts and some research saying that it couldn't be
> done (but lots of "undoable" things have been done by our admins...
> thanks guys) I am coming to the list having done my homework, but not
> getting the results I need purely with CSS. I have found a way to
> emulate this by way of PHP and overlaying two different <div>s with the
> same content from PHP variables, yet pure CSS is my goal. Thanks guys!
Sorry, but it makes no sense that PHP can do anything other than generate
the (HTML & CSS) code that gets delivered to web browsers. PHP runs on
your web server. Unlike JavaScript, it is not a client-side language; it's
not interpreted by web browsers. Whatever your HTML & CSS code consists of
(whether created via PHP or some other means), apparently, that's your
answer.
Larry
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