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try opacity:0.4 instead of .4<br />
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and try a color other than white to make sure.
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try opacity:0.4 instead of .4

and try a color other than white to make sure.

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Give the element that you're applying the filter to a css height or width.
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Give the element that you're applying the filter to a css height or width.

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using the following code to try and get a semi-transparent drop down menu (drop down originally created in Fireworks and then imported webpage into Dreamweaver). No matter what I do the dropdown is COMPLETELY transparent. Working on Mac and testing in Safari and Firefox.<br />
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Thank you.<br />
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#MMMenuContainer0627152508<wbr />_1 a {<br />
/* Controls the general apperance for menu MMMenuContainer0627152508_<wbr />1's items, including color and font */<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;text-decoration:none;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;font-size:12px;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;color:#ff0000;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;text-align:left;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;vertical-align:middle;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;padding:3px;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;background-color:#ffffff, filter:alpha(opacity=40);o<wbr />pacity: .4;-moz-opacity: .4;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;font-weight:normal;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;font-style:normal;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;display:block;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;position:absolute;<br />
}
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using the following code to try and get a semi-transparent drop down menu (drop down originally created in Fireworks and then imported webpage into Dreamweaver). No matter what I do the dropdown is COMPLETELY transparent. Working on Mac and testing in Safari and Firefox.

Thank you.


#MMMenuContainer0627152508_1 a {
/* Controls the general apperance for menu MMMenuContainer0627152508_1's items, including color and font */
	text-decoration:none;
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:12px;
	color:#ff0000;
	text-align:left;
	vertical-align:middle;
	padding:3px;
	background-color:#ffffff, filter:alpha(opacity=40);opacity: .4;-moz-opacity: .4;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-style:normal;
	display:block;
	position:absolute;
}

css coding for semi-transparent drop down menu

Websites use graphics to enhance information, assist navigation, and generally improve the user’s experience. To create those graphics, developers use any number of programs, like the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop and Flash have their own topics), the CorelDraw suite, Xara, Gimp, ACDSee, Serif, ULead and others.

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Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development tool featuring both WYSIWYG and code editors that allow the user to quickly and easily build websites in a wide variety of languages, including ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion and PHP. It also offers support for CSS and JavaScript.

Adobe Dreamweaver

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