Opacity prob`

**Burgin** · 04-05-2012, 06:27 PM

I've set a wrapper DIV to 0.4 opacity, how do I prevent the opacity of any content?

Thanks in advance

**coothead** · 04-05-2012, 10:31 PM

Hi there Burgin,

try it with "rgba()"...

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="language" content="english"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

<title></title>

<style type="text/css">
#box {
    width:324px;
    line-height:200px;
    border:1px solid #000;
    margin:24px auto 0;
    font-family:verdana,sans-serif;
    font-size:28px;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-align:center;
    color:rgb(255,0,0);
    background-color:rgba(255,0,0,0.4);
 }
</style>

</head>
<body>

<div id="box">opacity test</div>

</body>
</html>

coothead

**traq** · 04-06-2012, 03:19 AM

to clarify,

opacity applies to an element and all of its content (all child elements and text). it's supposed to work this way; you can't "prevent" it.

if you only want the background to be semi-transparent, use an rgba value for the element's background, as coothead suggests.