Creating simple transparency effects with CSS
December 03, 2005
CSS
You will need to create some styles for your elements (in this case two absolutely positioned divs). See the example code below.

The red div has no special effects applied - it is just there to show through the blue div. The blue div has 3 versions of the opacity effect applied to it, to take care of different browsers.

The result:


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Posted by ellen at December 03, 2005 10:50 AM
Example Code
<style type=\"text/css\">
<!--
#Layer1 {
	position:absolute;
	width:200px;
	height:115px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 199px;
	top: 244px;
	background-color: #CC0033;
}
#Layer2 {
	position:absolute;
	width:200px;
	height:115px;
	z-index:1;
	left: 273px;
	top: 169px;
	background-color: #00CCFF;
	 filter:alpha(opacity=50);   /* Internet Explorer       */
   -moz-opacity:0.5;           /* Mozilla 1.6 and below   */
   opacity: 0.5;  
}
-->
</style>
in the body section, put the 2 layers:

<div id=\"Layer1\"></div>
<div id=\"Layer2\"></div>


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