Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread brian
Ingo Chao wrote: > > Your impoliteness seems to be a play for you. It is not to me. Yes, all > of this will be "recorded", brian, but your "exercise" is already > answered in the very old link I gave. And what is the point of giving > exercises instead of answers in a mailing list? Again, brian

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread Ingo Chao
brian wrote: > Ingo Chao wrote: >> brian wrote: >>> Ingo Chao wrote: Yes, but you cannot stretch any image that is more complex. Stretching a marguerite my look like a rose, though. >>> Who said anything about "more complex" images? Did you miss the part >>> about giving a div a semi-op

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread brian
Ingo Chao wrote: > brian wrote: >> Ingo Chao wrote: >>> >>> Yes, but you cannot stretch any image that is more complex. >>> Stretching a marguerite my look like a rose, though. >> >> Who said anything about "more complex" images? Did you miss the part >> about giving a div a semi-opaque backgroun

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread Ingo Chao
brian wrote: > Ingo Chao wrote: >> brian wrote: >>> That's not true. The part you've been missing is the sizingMethod >>> param to AlphaImageLoader() [1]. You need to scale it. >> Yes, but you cannot stretch any image that is more complex. Stretching a >> marguerite my look like a rose, though. >

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread brian
Ingo Chao wrote: > brian wrote: >> >> That's not true. The part you've been missing is the sizingMethod >> param to AlphaImageLoader() [1]. You need to scale it. > > Yes, but you cannot stretch any image that is more complex. Stretching a > marguerite my look like a rose, though. > Who said an

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread david
David Hucklesby wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:50:00 +0100, Dermot Ward wrote: >> [...]I've been grappling with this >> particular problem now for a couple of weeks so here goes with my first post. >> Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that allows >> the containing >> d

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread Luis Speciale
Dermot Ward a écrit :. > Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that > allows the containing > div's content to partially show through the box, while the box retains > full text opacity You can make it with a square gif (you need Photoshop or another similar) of 2x2 pixel

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread Ingo Chao
brian wrote: > David Hucklesby wrote: >> Emanuele Venezia wrote: >>> Wouldn't it be enough to use a semi-transparent image as background for the >>> contained >>> div? (it would be CSS21 compliant, too) >>> >> Absolutely. Sadly, though, the most used browser today, IE6, will not >> apply alpha tra

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-09-01 Thread brian
David Hucklesby wrote: > Emanuele Venezia wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it be enough to use a semi-transparent image as background for the >> contained >> div? (it would be CSS21 compliant, too) >> > > Absolutely. Sadly, though, the most used browser today, IE6, will not > apply alpha transparency to rep

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:35:51 +0900, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > David Hucklesby wrote: > >>> One way to do this might be to use two DIVs, one superimposed over the >>> other. If >>> one DIV has a background color and a fractional opacity, while the >>> overlaid DIV has the text and (default) tra

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:32:04 +0200, Emanuele Venezia wrote: > > Wouldn't it be enough to use a semi-transparent image as background for the > contained > div? (it would be CSS21 compliant, too) > Absolutely. Sadly, though, the most used browser today, IE6, will not apply alpha transparency to repe

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-30 Thread Emanuele Venezia
Dermot Ward ha scritto: > Hi, > What a great place this is for helping to demystify css. > I've been grappling with this particular problem now for a couple of > weeks so > here goes with my first post. > Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that > allows the containing >

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
David Hucklesby wrote: >> One way to do this might be to use two DIVs, one superimposed over >> the other. If one DIV has a background color and a fractional >> opacity, while the >> overlaid DIV has the text and (default) transparent background, I >> think that may work: >> >> HTML >> >> Som

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread David Hucklesby
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:50:00 +0100, Dermot Ward wrote: >> [...]I've been grappling with this >> particular problem now for a couple of weeks so here goes with my first >> post. Is it >> possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that allows the >> containing >> div's content to par

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:50:00 +0100, Dermot Ward wrote: > [...]I've been grappling with this > particular problem now for a couple of weeks so here goes with my first post. > Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that allows the > containing > div's content to partially show

[css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi, What a great place this is for helping to demystify css. I've been grappling with this particular problem now for a couple of weeks so here goes with my first post. Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that allows the containing div's content to partially show through