Transparency

[The Little Guy]

anyone know how to make ONLY a background image transparent, and not the text?

[haku]

I'm guessing you mean 'background' and not 'background image'.

 

You have two options:

1) make the background an image with transparency

2) Don't make the text a child of the background. Move it out somewhere, and position it over top the background.

[The Little Guy]

That is what I thought I had to do I was hoping CSS3 had a way of making the background transparent of an element.

 

in CSS3 they should add...

 

myElement{
    background-image: url('/link/to/image.jpg');
    background-opacity: 0.8;
}

 

What were they thinking

[papillonstudios]

heres the way i do it.

background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);

 

I use the RGB Alpha. That code there give you white at 50% opacity