I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I would like to make a
table, with an opaque background, over top to hold content, that will still
somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
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Hi Tania, I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I would like to make a
table, with an opaque background, over top to hold content, that will still
somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
If you "would like to make a table, [...] to hold content", you're wrong
here, I guess.
If you give the table a background, it will coceal the page-background,
unless you use a (semi-)transparent table-background-image.
Chris
"Tania" <ta****@nospam. com> wrote in message
news:L4dnd.1933 97$9b.1283@edtn ps84... I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I would like to make
a table, with an opaque background, over top to hold content, that will
still somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
This is like asking for a watertight sieve. You ought to look up "opaque" in
the dictionary.
Anyway, you can specify either that a background have a color OR that it be
transparent, not both. You can try using a background image with a lot of
transparency, or a background image designed to look like the page's
background image as seen through a transparent color filter.
So how can I have an area with text in it, that one can read over the scenic
background?
"Chris Leipold" <cl******@dietz k.de> wrote in message
news:30******** *****@uni-berlin.de... Hi Tania,
I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I would like to
make a table, with an opaque background, over top to hold content, that will
still somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
If you "would like to make a table, [...] to hold content", you're wrong
here, I guess.
If you give the table a background, it will coceal the page-background,
unless you use a (semi-)transparent table-background-image.
Chris
Tania wrote: "Chris Leipold" <cl******@dietz k.de> wrote in message
news:30******** *****@uni-berlin.de...
Hi Tania,
> I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I
> would like to make a table, with an opaque background,
> over top to hold content, that will still
> somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
If you "would like to make a table, [...] to hold
content", you're wrong here, I guess.
If you give the table a background, it will coceal the
page-background, unless you use a (semi-)transparent
table-background-image.
So how can I have an area with text in it, that one can
read over the scenic background?
By setting the background of the text to transparent.
Just make sure that the scenic background has enough contrast
with the text to be able to read it properly.
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"Tania" <ta****@nospam. com> wrote: So how can I have an area with text in it, that one can read over the scenic
background?
"Chris Leipold" <cl******@dietz k.de> wrote in message
news:30******* ******@uni-berlin.de... Hi Tania,
> I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I would like tomake a > table, with an opaque background, over top to hold content, that willstill > somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
Please don't top-post. You can see from this what a nuisance it is to
follow a thread when people write their responses out of order with
the earlier messages. Write your response at the bottom, or underneath
the part of the earlier message(s) to which it pertains.
As to your question: background: transparent; ("transparen t" is the
opposite of "opaque").
If you "would like to make a table, [...] to hold content", you're wrong
here, I guess.
If you give the table a background, it will coceal the page-background,
unless you use a (semi-)transparent table-background-image.
Chris
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*Tania* <ta****@nospam. com>:
I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I would like to
make a table, with an opaque background, over top to hold content, that
will still somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
Certainly not with an opaque background for the table, but with a
semi-transparent one. In CSS2 that can only be done with a 'transparent'
'background-color' and a 'background-image' in a format that supports more
advanced than binary transparency (like PNG, "alpha channel").
With the CSS*3 module Color (<http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/>) there are
almost certainly coming ways to give background color an alpha value
('rgba()', 'hsla()'¹) or to give the whole box a reduced 'opacity', thus
removing the need for a second background image.
¹ <rant>In a quite unintuitive way, which seems to be what graphics
designers like to use²: the alpha value is always given as a float between
0 and 1, not a percentage, which would be the established CSS way, and
neither in the same way as the color components, i.e. 'rgba(255, 127, 0,
255)', 'rgba(100%, 50%, 0%, 100%)', '#F70F', '#FF7F00FF' would---despite
being logic assumptions---all be incorrect (well, the first one would
probably be shaped to 'rgba(255, 127, 0, 1.0)'.</rant>
² <rant>See the unsystematic color names of that very draft.</rant>
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"Harlan Messinger" <hm************ *******@comcast .net> wrote in message
news:5k******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... "Tania" <ta****@nospam. com> wrote:
So how can I have an area with text in it, that one can read over the
scenicbackground?
"Chris Leipold" <cl******@dietz k.de> wrote in message
news:30******* ******@uni-berlin.de... Hi Tania,
> I have a scenic picture for the background of a page. I would like to
make a > table, with an opaque background, over top to hold content, that will
still > somewhat show my page background. How do I do this?
Please don't top-post. You can see from this what a nuisance it is to
follow a thread when people write their responses out of order with
the earlier messages. Write your response at the bottom, or underneath
the part of the earlier message(s) to which it pertains.
As to your question: background: transparent; ("transparen t" is the
opposite of "opaque").
If you "would like to make a table, [...] to hold content", you're
wrong here, I guess.
If you give the table a background, it will coceal the page-background,
unless you use a (semi-)transparent table-background-image.
Chris
--
Harlan Messinger
Remove the first dot from my e-mail address.
Veuillez ôter le premier point de mon adresse de courriel.
Hey Harlan, you really might want to remove that stick out of your ass. All
I asked for was some help and you've been nothing but rude. Oh, and you
might want to look THAT up in the dictonary.
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:39:33 GMT, Tania <ta****@nospam. com> wrote: Please don't top-post. You can see from this what a nuisance it is to
follow a thread when people write their responses out of order with
the earlier messages. Write your response at the bottom, or underneath
the part of the earlier message(s) to which it pertains.
Hey Harlan, you really might want to remove that stick out of your ass.
If he has one there, I probably agree. It's a pain in the ass.
All
I asked for was some help and you've been nothing but rude.
Nothing but rude would imply "never helpful". He did mention "transparen t"
which is what you're looking for, so I doubt your assertion.
BTW, your bottom post was quite easy to find and reply to, thanks. One
other tip - trim parts of the post irrelevent to your next bit. Reduces
bandwidth and the detective-ness you and I must use when reading.
These conventions don't exist to bully new posters, they exist to
facilitate the process. Hope you appreciate that.
> These conventions don't exist to bully new posters, they exist to facilitate the process. Hope you appreciate that.
You obviously didn't see his other message. Anyway, I know now not to look
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I have a page background that is a scenic picture and would like to create a
table over top of it for text, but i still want the picture to show through
the table somewhat. How can I make an opaque background on the table?
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Hi NG,
I've read some time ago in this NG, that when you're writing a library
it can be good practice to use an opaque type to point to your
structures if the user doesn't need to modify the structure himself.
This way the internal structure of the lib can be changed, and the lib
can be recompiled, but the application using the lib doesn't need to be
recompiled.
But then there are two ways to define the opque type:
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On Apr 26, 5:19 pm, Ben C <spams...@spam.eggswrote:
Super!! It will take me a while to digest your idea, though...and in
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