> Bill Brown wrote: >> Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >>> No, it is completely true. The 'opacity' property applies to the >>> whole >>> box and its descendants. >>> >>> Using RGBA/HSLA colours is a completely different game. You don't >>> use >>> or affect the opacity of the box, only use a semi-transparent colour >>> (value) for the background property. >> >> Right, ok, sorry. Must have mis-read the question. >> Please disregard my previous reply.
No need to. The technique you illustrated is a nice one to get a semi- transparent background on a block element. I've used something similar before, except for the IE filter bits, as I didn't know about it. See below. Ingo wrote: The gradient filter attempt with startcolor=endcolor doesn't seem to > suffer from the unclikable links problem anymore. The container needs > haslayout like with any filter, but that's all. > > A little late for IE6, but nevertheless an innovative approach. Yeah, I noticed that too, when testing that in IE 6&7. At least in my simple test cases, the links always seemed click-able/focus-able. What I'd like to know, though: how does the use of that filter affect performance (scrolling, screen refresh, resizing, etc) ? My test files remained quite snappy, but as I said, those where simple test cases Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
