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More Eric Meyer on CSS

by Eric A. Meyer
April 2004
Beginner
304 pages
7h 26m
English
New Riders
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Chapter 4. Positioning in the Background

 

But I was told there would be no math! Too bad.

 
 --MACINTOSH TECHNICAL NOTE #31

It's a common thing, at least in print design, to use shaded variations of a background to make portions of the design stand out. A good example is an ad in which there's a big picture of a mountain or beach or beautiful woman filling the entire ad, and in the middle is some compelling yet meaningless text, and surrounding that text is a region where the picture in the background has been washed out, as if the text were written on a half-opaque block of plastic.

Since opacity styles aren't part of CSS as of this writing, it's been generally thought that such effects are effectively impossible. There are fixed-attachment backgrounds ...

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