Text in Transparent Box

**akash** · 05-05-2009 11:37 AM

we create a div element (class="background") with a fixed height and width, a background image, and a border. Then we create a smaller div (class="transbox") inside the first div element. This div also have a fixed width, a background image, and a border. In addition we make this div transparent. Inside the transparent div, we add some text inside a p element.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.background
      {
      width:500px;
      height:250px;
      background:url(klematis.jpg) repeat;
      border:2px solid black;
      }
div.transbox
      {
      width:400px;
      height:180px;
      margin:30px 50px;
      background-color:#ffffff;
      border:1px solid black;
      /* for IE */
      filter:alpha(opacity=60);
      /* CSS3 standard */
      opacity:0.6;
      }
div.transbox p
      {
      margin:30px 40px;
      font-weight:bold;
      color:#000000;
      }
</style>
</head>

<body>

<div class="background">
<div class="transbox">
<p>This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.
This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.
This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.
This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.
This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.
</p>
</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>