opacity

Opacity of background, but not the text

Use rgba! .alpha60 { /* Fallback for web browsers that don't support RGBa */ background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); /* RGBa with 0.6 opacity */ background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); /* For IE 5.5 - 7*/ filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99000000,  endColorstr=#99000000);   /* For IE 8*/ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99000000,  endColorstr=#99000000)"; }