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gwar2k1

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Hey

I have a background to a div that is an image. In this div is an iframe which covers the image. Is there any way of having a transparent background color to either an iframe or an actual page?

TIA,
Gwar3k1

~*Gwar3k1*~
"To the pressure, everything's just like: an illusion. I'll be losing you before long..."
 
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transparent background color

I think maybe you mean translucent? If it were transparent you would not be able to see it *grin*.

Anyway... to answer your question... you can indeed have a background image in a page (and since the src of your iframe is a page, you can by default achieve a background image in your iframe). If you saved the background image with something like 30% opacity (from Photoshop for instance) then you will also be able to achieve the appearance of it being translucent too!

You can do it many ways... but let's do it using CSS (because that's going to be useful for many others as well I think):

Code: 
<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
body
{
  font-size:0.8em;
  font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;
  margin:0px;
  padding:0px;
  background-color:#CCCCCC;
  background-attachment:scroll;
  background-position:50px 400px;
  background-image:url(../images/logo_sidebar.gif);
  background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
</style>

All the best,
Jeff
 
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thanks =) so ur saying i cant really do what i want but i can have the illusion of it? i did think about image over image but thats more loading time =S oh well sacrafices must be made. thanks again

~*Gwar3k1*~
&quot;To the pressure, everything's just like: an illusion. I'll be losing you before long...&quot;
 
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I am looking for a more general (or more specific, dpending on how you look at it) situation.

I just want a div (a dropdown menu) to overlay the page with 90% opacity. The page below has live text.

Can this be done?
Can you point me at site(s) that do this?
Does anyone offer a pre-fab menu with this option?
 
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It can be done using CSS opacity. This page has a pretty good discussion on this and supplies some code that could be of use to you:


I think the following (taken from that page) is what you might be after:

Code: 
img {filter: alpha(opacity=10);-moz-opacity:0.10;} 

<img src="blah.png" width="20" height="20"/>

For Internet Explorer:
opacity=n (where n is from 0 to 100)

For Mozilla:
-moz-opacity:n (where n is from 0.00 to 1.00)

From experience, this doesn't work on IE5 for MacOS9 (probably the same for MacOSX as well). Anyone else?

Cheers,
Jeff
 
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Yeah, I stumbled across the filter/moz solution, thanks.

Secondary problem:
The entire layer is semi-opaque. That includes any text, which gets unreadable below even 90% opacity. I'd like it if the background were semi-opaque, but the text were solid.

My solution is to put the background and the text on separate layers.

And the only problem with that is that it amy complicate out-of-the-box DHTML dropdown menu solutions (which is what I'm building).

So, again: does anyone know of a dropdown menu solution that uses semi-opaque bgs, but not semi-opaque text?

 
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Possible solution:

fake the drop-down.

Put a button with a 'v' on it (like a down-arrow) next to a text input and show/hide a DIV containing an IFRAME with your list of options, each enclosed in a SPAN tag, with onmouseover, onmouseout, and onclick events used to mimic drop-down list use.

Here is an example that works for me in IE6. Note the use of Jeff's (BabyJeffy's) opacity style. Also, my STONE.BMP is a texture bitmap that repeats in the DIV but, due to how it looks, does not appear to repeat, so it makes a nice background.

Here's the code:

Code: 
<html>
<head>
<script>
var show=true;
function selectThis(spanObj)
{
 highlightThis(spanObj,true);
 selectedVal.value = spanObj.innerText;
 hideDropDown();
}

function dropDown()
{
 if(show)
 {
  show = !show;
  optionList.style.left = selectedVal.offsetLeft;
  optionList.style.top = selectedVal.offsetTop + selectedVal.offsetHeight;
  optionList.style.width = dropDownButton.offsetLeft - selectedVal.offsetLeft + dropDownButton.offsetWidth;
  optionList.style.display = 'inline';
  optionList.style.height = '10';
  optionList.style.visibility = 'visible';
  document.frames["optionListFrame"].setBackground();
 }
 else
 {
  hideDropDown();
 }
}

function hideDropDown()
{
 show = !show;
 optionList.style.visibility = 'hidden';
 optionList.style.display = 'none';
}

function highlightThis(spanObj, highlight)
{
 if(highlight)
 {
  spanObj.style.backgroundColor = 'blue';
  spanObj.style.color = 'white';
 }
 else
 {
  spanObj.style.backgroundColor = 'transparent';
  spanObj.style.color = 'black';
 }
}

function loadIFrame()
{
 var d = document.frames["optionListFrame"].document;
 d.write("<html>");
 d.write("<head>");
 d.write("<style>");

 d.write(".background{filter:alpha(opacity=30);position:\"absolute\";top=0;left=0;background-image:url(\"STONE.BMP\");z-index:-1;}");

 d.write("</style>");
 d.write("<script>");

 d.write("function setBackground()");
 d.write("{");

 d.write(" backgroundDiv.style.width = document.body.scrollWidth;");
 d.write(" backgroundDiv.style.height = document.body.scrollHeight;");

 d.write("}//end setBackground()");

 d.write("</scr"+"ipt></head>");
 d.write("<body onload='setBackground();'>");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>one</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>two</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>three</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>four</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>five</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>six</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>seven</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>eight</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>nine</span><br />");
 d.write("<span onclick='parent.selectThis(this)' onmouseover='parent.highlightThis(this,true)' onmouseout='parent.highlightThis(this,false)'>ten</span><br />");
 d.write("<div id='backgroundDiv' class='background'>");
 d.write("</div>"); //backgroundDiv
 d.write("</body></html>");
 d.close();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload='loadIFrame();'>
<input name='selectedVal' disabled='disabled' type='text' size='30' /><input name='dropDownButton' type='button' value='v' onclick='dropDown()' />
<div id='optionList' style='position:absolute;visibility:hidden;display:none'>
<iframe height='100%' width='100%' id='optionListFrame'>
</iframe>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Have fun!

--Dave
 
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