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I am working on a basic website and have a question. I used an image as the background and a text box to make the wording stand out, the text box I set as opaque. I wanted to add a picture to the text box but it is opaque too. How would I set the picture to be solid in an opaque text box?
Thanks for the help!!!!

In general, a child element will take on the properties from it's parent element. You can override the parent property by giving the image it's own property. However the css opacity property has some unique properties and does not work as expected.
see this popular question for work arounds that may work for your specific problem:
How do I give text or an image a transparent background using CSS?

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Blur element in front of the image

Hy guys. I have this problem. So I have an image. In front of that image is simple element with width and height. I want to blur that element so it looks like that part of the picture is blurred. I cannot have any image or background-image in that element. I want to achieve this effect without using any additional image, just css. I tried to put background colour, reducing the opacity and putting filter: blur but it doesn’t look good. I can still read the text that is supposed to be blurred.
It's not possible to do this with full support without javascript, at the moment. But in case you want to support a limited set of browsers, you can use backdrop-filter
The backdrop-filter CSS property lets you apply graphical effects such
as blurring or color shifting to the area behind an element. Because
it applies to everything behind the element, to see the effect you
must make the element or its background at least partially
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I am working on a drop down menu that I want to make completely with CSS. Within the link I will not only have text that needs to change when hovered over, but also an image. Changing the color of the text is easy. However I am not sure how to swap the images on the hover...
Here is what I want the result to look like:
Where the arrows will be small images that will switch when the link is hovered over. How do I do this using CSS?
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_sprites.asp
Check Image Sprites - Hover Effect section.
Set the image as a background image to a div (with a set width and height), and you can change that value with css.
Ideally put both graphics into one image, so that you can just shift the background position and you don't get any flicker during the transition (Google "css image sprites").
I believe you'd need to use javascript to change the src of an embedded image.
You could also have two images and use display:block and display:none to show/hide them as appropriate, but I don't think that would be the best approach.
Use CSS background: url()... on an element you deem most applicable. Here is documentation and a walkthrough: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/background.
On a side-note, you may want to consider using a sprite as well, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/CSS_Image_Sprites

Setting the opacity of an element within a div with opacity defined by CSS?

I'm working on a project in which I am using an image as a background for a menu. I have defined classes in my CSS stylesheet that dictate the appearance when items are or are not "selected", meaning the user is not on the page each item is linked to.
I have it structured with a div on top of the image with styles applied to it to make it have a semi-transparent white background, so it looks like that part of the image is highlighted. Each semi-transparent div also contains the text that makes up the link, with a color set to white. I would like the div to keep the opacity, while the text remains at an opacity of "1".
I have tried the method discussed in a similar question (CSS - Apply Opacity to Element but NOT To Text Within The Element) but the method does not seem to work for me.
I've posted the bit of code for the link on JSFiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/Cwca22/uG5y8/ if you'd like to take a look at it.
Thanks in advance for all the help.
If you're looking for a pure CSS solution, and are willing to change your markup a little, take a look at this example:
http://jsfiddle.net/jJ4MZ/3/
It treats each "link" as a combination of separate background and text elements, and then positions them over each other, so that only the background div uses transparency.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you want the background colour of the div to be partially transparent to show the image through, but keep the text opaque? That's simple :3
<div style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);">Text</div>
If you want to provide support for browsers that don't allow this format, then you need:
<div style="background: #ffffff; background: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);">Text</div>
Old problem without any standard solutions yet! This is something known to be impossible with today's CSS. The only solution i know of is using JS. Using JS you can catch the mousemove of the affected H# and create/position an element. This new 'over' element should not be a child of the DIV with opacity 0.2.
Once i wrote a jsFiddle for a problem like this. Here it is http://jsfiddle.net/A53Py/5/
Create a same-level element which positions absolutely behind the elements without opacity. No need to tell it's cross browser.
Hope it helps

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I am currently creating a one page website, however I am having an issue, I need the scroll text underneath the fixed element however you can see the text that should be dissapearing under the fixed position element, as the element as a back-ground, which is a transparent png, is there any way I can hide text as it scrolls underneath the fixed position element.
Here is a fiddle of what I have, so far
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Ideally I am wanting it so that when text moves behind the box with red borders it is not visisble, without the need for a background color.
I have visited your website and stolen some images to better understand what you are trying to accomplish.. Assuming i'm correct in the assumption you do not want a solid background on the header because it would mess with your pages background....
you can use multiple backgrounds...
see your demo
You will need something in #banner that will hide the text. From the css it looks like there is supposed to be a background image in that block, but it is not showing up.
The header is transparent as set in your css reset, so a color or image will be necessary if you want the text to be hidden. Otherwise, it's like moving the text behind a piece of glass...you will still see the text unless you have something to actually cover it.
I suspect if there was a working background image on the header, it would block the text where it wasn't transparent. When I add a background-color it achieves that effect.

Creating custom html text boxes

Just wondering how you would go about creating the effect as seen in the following image:
Image
The part i'd like to attempt to recreate is the gradient within the text field itself along with the line border surrounding the text box.
Thanks.
This can also be done using CSS3, reducing the need to load images. The problem, of course, is that it can become a little tricky cross-browser.
Heres a demo: Demo
Heres a tutorial on reproducing the demo: Tutorial
You can just set the CSS attributes on the input element in question. background-image for the gradient and border for the border.