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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	OK, I'm pretty sure that's not the right term for this, but basically what I want to know is can I apply a set of styles to a "container" div and then have those styles [b]not[/b] be inherited by elements within that div? I'm messing around with a new style sheet for [url=http://liminality.org/index_test.html]my site[/url] (which is still in development and still up for review), and I've got a nifty new background image over which I want to have my content div run at 75% opacity (I realize that I am kind of going in the opposite direction from where I wanted to be going--[b]away[/b] from complex backgrounds rather than [b]toward[/b] them, but I just got this idea and I wanted to try it out). Having text in this div is not that big of a deal, even if it shows up at 75% opacity, but when images come into play it gets nasty. I tried setting the opacity of images to 100%, but all this does is give images a [b]relative[/b] opacity of 100% (meaning an opacity of 75%, since that is inherited from the content div the images are contained in). So, I would like to do one of the following things, if possible (in order of preference): [olist] Apply the transparency styles [b]only[/b] to the container div, in effect "turning off" inheritance for those styles. If there is no way to do #1, then I can live with just making images 100% (absolute) opaque; [/olist] I haven't been able to find an "inheritance: none" style, but I can't imagine there is no way to parent transparency. I imagine that the answer to this is either very simple or very difficult... (Oh, here are the [url=http://liminality.org/thumbs.php?set=whitesands]dreaded transparent images[/url] in action... you'll need to click on the third color scheme to see the effect.) Loading...
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