Opacity help (and critique if you want to)

[thejadedmonkey]

So I'm working on a website.. and it's coming along.

Now, on the left hand side of the page is a menu. It's made out of a div which has .9 opacity. Inside it is a list, and I want the background of the list item to be white, with no opacity when the mouse hovers over it. Unfortunately, even if I set opacity to 1, it still doesn't do anything.. any help?

and critiques are welcome too.

http://rilet.com/sites/UST/

P.S. Township info is the only link that works.

 

[ChicoWeb]

Eek..

Why not just make it a bg image? Opacity is bad news and slows down your load time. It's a memory hog.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Eek..

Why not just make it a bg image? Opacity is bad news and slows down your load time. It's a memory hog.

Good idea. It's amazing how I can get caught up using fun CSS when an image would work just as well!

 

[elppa]

That Salford looks a bit nicer than the one we have in the UK.

 

[aussieNickuss]

Have you tried using a semi-transparent PNG as the default background image, and then set the background colour to white on hover.

If you do that you have to use a hack for IE.....filterrogID(????)....(do a search).