"jhomp ssens" <ph********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I would like to create a pulldown menu which is
semi-transparent....that is, you can see the text and graphics behind
it when it is pulled down. The effect I'm looking for can be seen at
http://www.countrywide.com. Are there any good tutorials which can
show me how to do this with CSS?
They are using javascript for those menus. They were not transparent in
Firefox .8 but were in IE6.
See
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/.
The problem is these techniques will not work with internet explorer. They
depend on the being able to apply hover styles on arbitrary elements. IE
only supports :hover on the 'a' element.
I do not believe there is a way to do it with CSS that will work with IE.
Another problem is IE does not support png transparency. You could make
menus using CSS and apply a semi-transparent png image as a background, with
the background-color set at transparent. This would work for Mozilla, for
instance but not IE. A crude work around for a semi-transparent background
in IE would be to use a gif which has alternating color and transparent
pixels.But then your stuck anyway because the menus won't work in IE.
You might try google to see if there are any work-arounds for these
problems.
Regards,
Jim