bbxrider wrote:
there is some property that i think is mostly used for images used as
backrounds that fades them, so you can get the idea of the image but not
have it
obscuring the text thats on it, its not trasparency
i have been going nuts trying to find it, i'm sure i've seen it
described somewhere on the w3c site but embarrassed to say can't find it
again
hopefully somebody knows this or maybe i'm going crazy
That kind of image is called a watermark. It's easy to create
using Word (once you find the right options via the Help). You can
either create a watermark image with a transparent background and
then set a background color, or else you can create the image with
the background color included. I prefer the latter so that the
background color is still presented when the user suppresses
images.
Be very careful about using colors that do not interfere with text
for those who might have visual handicaps. If your background
color provides appropriate contrast with your text, then a
watermark image that is almost the same color as the background
might be good. See <URL:http://www.oakparkfoun dation.org/>, where
the background color is ivory and the image is a pale brown.
Note also that Mozilla has a bug that causes jerky scrolling with
background watermark images that have transparency. This is most
noticeable when the image is fixed in the window while the
foreground text scrolls, but it is also seen when the image scrolls
with the text (as in the page I cite in the above paragraph).
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David E. Ross
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I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that
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