opacity

CSS Opacity little problem ...

Hello everyone ... I'm trying to create a div that has the opacity of 60%, but i want the content of that div to be clear and not transparent. The div with the class "white_bg" should have the background color white with 60% transparency, but i want the text and the image inside that div to be clear and not transparent at all ... is th...

Java: Transparent Windows with non-transparent components?

Hi, I just met the utilities (com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities) to make your JFrame really transparent. Documentation here. This works very good. Even in Linux with the desktop effects with wobbly windows turned on (Here a little video)! But I want to make also a non-transparent component on the transparent JFrame. Does anyone know, if this i...

place a form with Opacity over a main form with datagridview winform

I have a form (named mainForm.cs) with a datagridview on it. I must to show a picture (with opacity) over a datagrdiview. To achieve this, I made another form (frmPicture) with a picturebox, and apply the opacity property to the form. It also set the opacity = 100 when the mouse get inside the form (frmPicture) and opacity = 30 when the...

Window transparency in WPF vs Winforms

Why is it that I have to set the WindowStyle property to None on a WPF form to get transparency, but in Winforms I can do it on any form, and retain borders, standard buttons, etc? Clearly the API supports this, so I'm not clear on what's special about WPF that would make this an issue. I'm guessing that WPF is jumping through some Dire...

JavaScript Switch Statement Fades Opacity to None But Doesn't Fade it Back

Hey all, I have a really weird situation. The idea is there is a scroller that moves from left to right to display different groups. But when it stops to show specific group, there are links to leaf through different "pages" of the group. Now in order to do this, you click link one page fades and another fades in. Everything worked smoo...

Changing the opacity of individual form controls in .NET

Ok, so what I'm trying to do is have two imageboxes overlapping so that I can align the images in them (based on user input). The problem is I'm not sure if I can adjust the opacity of individual controls so I can only see the topmost control. Of course, I could do image processing and combine the two images into a single image (with the...

Opacity in IE8 works on <p> but not on <a>

I have a problem with IE8 where I cannot make <a> elements transparent. I've found these related SO questions but I haven't had any luck with the answers provided there: Opacity CSS not working in IE8 Opacity in web pages? I've tried "giving layout", by using zoom: 1;, but it hasn't helped. Here is my test CSS, lifted from the exampl...

JQuery css opacity on transparent png + IE = dark ugly outlines on transparent pngs...

Not sure what is going on here, but the opacity setting in this line of code is turning my transparent png in IE into an ugly mess. This wasn't just for IE6 but the newest version of IE as well. Any ideas? $('#someid.pre').css({margin:'0px', right:'0px', opacity:'1.0'}); ...

Internet explorer Shadow filter destroys image transparency?

Internet explorer seems to not handle having two divs both with different semi-transparent backgrounds. The top div loses all opacity. Is there any way to fix this? Update Ok I found the issue: filter: Shadow(Color=#474747, Direction=125, Strength=2); apparently the filters kill opacity in images? ...

Set opacity to the menu but keep text opaque in CSS

How can I create a menu which only its background is transparent? The text should keep opaque (opacity: 1) If I set li:hover { opacity: 0.5 } The whole list item becomes transparent. How do I fix that? ...

Problem with Opacity in IE

Hi there. I have a simple href that calls a javascript function that makes a div hidden and shows another one instead of it. Then I'm using javascript to put in some nice fade-in effect. It works fine in Firefox and chrome. On IE I had to use width: 100% to make it work. And tho it's working now, it totally ruins my font type. Here's the...

transparent labels on mapserver using a mapfile

Hi, i'm trying to add a watermark layer in my mapfile with a DEFAULT layer: LAYER OPACITY 20 NAME "copyright" METADATA "wms_title" "copyright" END STATUS DEFAULT TYPE ANNOTATION TRANSFORM ll FEATURE POINTS 220 -220 END TEXT "Sample Image" END CLASS LABEL ...

internet explorer: semi-transparent images

Hi there, I have the two images below. They are the same image, with one having a slight glow effect on the text. They are setup as below: <div id="header"><a></a></div> withe the original image being the background for the div, and the 'glow' image being the background for the anchor tag, with display:block; width: 100%; height: 100...

Java - set opacity in JPanel

Let's say I want to make the opacity of a JPanel %20 viewable? I don't mean setOpaque (draw or not draw) or setVisible (show or hide)... I mean make it see-through JPanel.. you know? Is this possible? ...

JQuery - make an element go "fuzzy"

Hey, I have recently been developing a website for a company, with a full administration front end / CMS. In the Admin frontend, which unfortunately I cannot show you for security reasons, there is a Range list, Collection list and Design list. I would like to make the links for these work with JQuery, so clicking "Ranges" brings the Ra...

IE opacity :hover sometimes?

I am having a very odd opacity/hover problem in IE. Everything works in FF and Chrome. Consider this page: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).re...

How to get real color value after opacity

I am using jquery and css to fade the background color and opacity of a menu item. However, I want to have the background color be the actual css background color: For example: css background color: #eabf60 real color after .70 opacity: #ECCD85 i suppose this also depends largely in part on the background behind the opaque element.....

How to set opacity/ transparancy on view/ List view row

Hi, In my code i have state for each row of content so in list view if row has state as read, i need to display it with opacity/ transparency but for the view there is no direct method to set alpha. if(termDetails.getInt("isRead") > 0) { AlphaAnimation animation = new AlphaAnimation(1, 0.2f); animation.setFillAfter(true); ...

opacity not working for img pointed by Hyperlink

In an asp.net applicaiton I am using Hyperlink which points to an image. On certain condition I am setting its "filter" property to alpha(opacity=70) for IE and "opacity" prop to 0.7 for Firefox so that it is shown dull to depict disable mode. This works fine in FIREFOX ie it shows dull in disabled mode but not in IE. I see that the...

Imagick doesn't render svg opacity properly.

First image was properly exported by Inscape, second by following code. I need same output from inkscape and imagick. PHP code: <?php $im = new Imagick(); $im->setResolution(400,400); $im->setBackgroundColor(new ImagickPixel('transparent')); $im->readImageBlob(str_replace(array("color1", "color2"), array("yellow", "blue"), file_ge...