I have a question about table opacity

[agmoney007]

Hi, I found this forum while spending 30 minuits not finding what I need out there. So I am asking this question.
I have a myspace account.
I want to make translucent tables of the color that I choose.
But I want my pictures in the tables not to be translucent.
I also want to control the text color in and out of the tables.
And I want to have borders on the translucent tables.
please help

[jscheuer1]

That is not so easy to do. Probably even less so on myspace. The opacity of an element is inherited by all of the elements, and text within it. There are probably a number of ways to deal with this but, the one that comes to mind is to set the opacity on your table to whatever you want it to be and then place other things with normal opacity on top of it using absolute or relative positioning.

[agmoney007]

dude was that supposed to make sense to me? the pictures is what really matters to me.

[Twey]

I disagree: it would be better to set a translucent background image on the table. Use AlphaImageLoader to get support for IE6.

[mburt]

A background image would be the easiest, but getting support for IE may be difficult, as if you use AlphaImageLoader the entire table would become translucent(?) Using opacity settings in the style would have an overall nasty affect as well. You could position a div element as a mask directly over the table, and have it at say 10 or 20 percent. It's possible.

[Twey]

the entire table would become translucentNo. That's not how AlphaImageLoader works.
You could position a div element as a mask directly over the table, and have it at say 10 or 20 percent. It's possible.Yes, but that's no easier than John's solution.

[jscheuer1]

yeah but this dude don't unnerstan any that sides, say he want the whole table.

Kidding aside, This is for myspace, no less and the OP doesn't seem to understand basic css positioning, let alone alpha images. If we want to help directly, we need to give concrete examples and even that may not be enough. I, for one, do not understand the special considerations/constraints that the myspace environment imposes.

Fortunately, there are a lot of these things already out there, ex:

http://www.freecodesource.com/index.php?page=myspacecodes/translucenttables

For more options:

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=myspace+templates+translucent&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8