[SOLVED] Transperent PHP chat window

[allan8904]

hi, i'm currently working on a php game with some friends, and i'm curently trying to implement a chat system. We would like it to be placed on the bottom of the window (which we did quite easily using some php chat source code), but we would like to be able to make the chat window transperent, so the user can still see the map. Is there an easy way to make an existing chat transperent, or is there source code taht i could download for a transperent chat in PHP

Thanks,

-Allan

[corillo181]

wouldn't that be part of css?

[thebadbad]

As the guy says, that's done with CSS. Create a 1x1 pixel transparent image (in whatever program you're using), and fill it with, say, a white dot with 80% opacity. Save it as a PNG file with alpha transparency, and use it as the background of the element containing the chat window.

 

CSS (assuming the container element has id="chatcontainer"):

#chatcontainer {
background: transparent url("filepath/filename.png") repeat top left;
}