I have an issue with creating a transparent element which has a child element. Using this code the child element gets the opacity value from the parent element.
I need to reset/set the child's element opacity to an arbitrary value.
Browser of reference is Maple Browser (for a Samsung TV Application).
.video-caption {
position: absolute;
top:50px;
width: 180px;
height: 55px;
background-color: #000;
-khtml-opacity:.40;
-moz-opacity:.40;
-ms-filter:"alpha(opacity=40)";
filter:alpha(opacity=40);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=0.4); /*just for testing*/
opacity:.40;
}
.video-caption > p {
color: #fff !important;
font-size: 18px;
-khtml-opacity:1;
-moz-opacity:1;
-ms-filter:"alpha(opacity=100)";
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=1);
opacity:1;
}
EDIT MARKUP
<div> <img id="videothb-1" src="https://xxxxx/splash.jpg"> <div class="video-caption"> <p>Description here</p> </div> </div>
The problem you probably have (based on looking at your selectors) is that opacity affects all child elements of a parent:
div
{
background: #000;
opacity: .4;
padding: 20px;
}
p
{
background: #f00;
opacity: 1;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Kyle_/TK8Lq/
But there is a solution! Use rgba background values and you can have transparency wherever you want :)
div
{
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
/*opacity: .4;*/
padding: 20px;
}
p
{
background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 1);
/*opacity: 1;*/
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Kyle_/TK8Lq/1/
For text, you can just use the same rgba code, but set to the color property of CSS:
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);
But you must use rgba on everything for this to work, you have to remove the opacity for all parent elements.