Transparency in CSS
For transparency use rgba colors
  • RGBa colors in CSS files: a (alpha channel) : 0-opaque; 1.0: transparent
  • Filters in IE #transparency { position: absolute; top: 150px; left: 300px; width: 500px; height: 100px; border: 20px solid rgba(255,0,0,0.5); background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); color: #FFFFFF; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99000000,endColorstr=#99000000); } Color Equivalences: rgba(255,255,255,0) = #00FFFFFF rgba(0,0,0,.5) = #7F000000 rgba(255,255,0,1) = #FFFFFF00 = #FFFF00 = #FF0
  • This is a test of the transparency style which works in all browsers