On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:37 AM, ben morrison <morrison.ben at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, ben morrison <morrison.ben at gmail.com> wrote: > >> All children will still have 0.9 opacity. >> >> The best solution for this is to have 2 items, 1 transparent and 1 >> opaque wrapped in a container div, and use absolute positioning. >> > > PS - or if you can use a png background as someone has already put forward. PPS you need to be aware that IE8 treats transparency differently http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html -- Ben Morrison