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PLEASE help me!

::tbhockey
09/28/03 6:01 PM GMT
i am working on a website, and the main background is a certain repeating background picutre. The actual site is in a table (same as this website). Now i want the background of the table to be a slightly transparent color, just enough to see the back, i tried making it very hard in photoshop, but i always ends up being a solid color. WHAT can i do????
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*caedes
09/29/03 11:29 PM GMT
You can do this with CSS styles, but everything in the table has to be transparent also. The way I usually do this is with fake transparencies. Just make the background of the table look like it is transparent. You have to make sure that it will stay in line with the background image though (not an easy task sometimes). [An example I've done]
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::tbhockey
09/30/03 12:42 AM GMT
wow! thats some crazy tecnolgy there lol. well anyway, that not really what i want to do, and as u said it wouldnt be easy (at all). u said u can do this in the css style sheet..would i set some background proerty for the .bodytd property? what is it? trancyparency?? and what do u mean that "everything in the table would have to be transparent"? thanks =)
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*caedes
09/30/03 1:10 AM GMT
I mean that if you made the content table transparent then all of the content would be transparent as well.
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::tbhockey
09/30/03 1:14 AM GMT
u mean the text and everything? u cant just make the table's background be transparent?
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*caedes
09/30/03 11:05 AM GMT
Look into the CSS attribute filter or alpha or something like that. You might find something that I don't know of since I don't use it (It's a microsoft extension of CSS).
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::tbhockey
10/01/03 12:45 AM GMT
um...u lost me, what's a "CSS attribute filter or alpha"? (sorry if im bothering u too much, lol)
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*caedes
10/01/03 6:58 PM GMT
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::tbhockey
10/01/03 9:28 PM GMT
wow thanks a lot, i got it to "semi-work" but like u said, its all transparent. (and also, my roll-overs are slow...) i tried what someone suggested (on the 2nd google link) on how to just make the background transparent, but it didnt work....
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::tbhockey
10/01/03 9:29 PM GMT
woops its only on the 2nd google link if u type "transparent css filter alpha"
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tbhockey
10/04/03 1:56 PM GMT
i would prefer to make i PNG of GIF (i think) does ANYBODY know how to get one to work right with it ACTUALLY being a bit transparent, not faded?
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=xentrik
10/28/03 8:47 AM GMT
A friend of mine seems to have had a similar issue, and seems to have found a solution. I know nothing about it beyond what he wrote, but it seems IE has trouble with transparent PNGs, and the javascript he mentions clears that up.
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*caedes
10/29/03 2:06 AM GMT
Good info.
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tbhockey
10/29/03 2:13 AM GMT
thank you. I'm too busy to read it right now, but i will later. thanks again
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