> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Tris <beertastic at gmail.com> wrote: >> how can I produce a 50% opacicty background color of black.. >> but still have pure white text on top.. >> it keeps making the text as opac as the background..? >> >> i've got two divs.. >> one for the backgroud and an imbedded div for the text... :-( Will wrote: > This page seems to break down the details: > http://www.mandarindesign.com/opacity.html maybe also check out this: http://css-tricks.com/css-transparency-settings-for-all-broswers/ http://www.robertnyman.com/2008/09/16/you-want-css-opacity-to-go-with-that-well-suit-yourself/ Me, I've always used a repeating background image (png) with the opacity set in Photoshop. Works in modern browsers, but not IE6. example: http://www.poww.net/policies.html You could do a conditional comments to: "take advantage of the enhanced features offered by Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and later versions, while writing pages that downgrade gracefully in less-capable browsers or display correctly in browsers other than Windows Internet Explorer." That text was taken right from Microsoft, can you tell? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512(VS.85).aspx Erika