Is it possible?

[endlessdream76]

I've been busy fixing my LJ and this comm has helped me out so much!!! Thanks a lot!!! But I have this question. Is it possible to make the background of the entries/sidebar to be a bit transparent so that my background could be seen and at the same time for my posts to be readable? It's my first time posting here and I totally have no clue about

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[corporatebeach]

sorta like my journal?

I was reading up on this, and while opacity works on Firefox and Safari, it doesn't on IE. I have software that will do it and I'd be happy to help. If you'd like to give me the url of the photo you're using, I can download and fix it for you.

[endlessdream76]

Wow really? thanks so much!!!!
good thing I'm using firefox ^^
which picture? if it's my background image then it's here:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8182/heysay.jpg
thank you so much!!

[corporatebeach]

Can you download this? Let me know if you'd like it more transparent. It takes me seconds.

[endlessdream76]

I've downladed the pic ^^ what's next?

[av8rmike]

I worked out something similar for a different user here. According to this, there is a setting that works in IE as well. So, I think you want something like this:
#alpha-inner, #beta-inner { opacity: 0.7; filter:alpha(opacity=0.7); }
You can change the "0.7" to what you want.

[endlessdream76]

thanks ^^
i tried it but is it possible to be the background only? because my userpics and the things that are written are getting transparent too so it's a bit hard to read...

[av8rmike]

OK, sorry, I guess I misunderstood. It sounds like what you want is to just make the entry background partially transparent. The background-color property supports a "transparent" setting, but not variable opacity. So if I'm correct, you (or corporatebeach) will have to edit the entry background image to add an alpha channel.

[endlessdream76]

So does that mean that I can make my entry background transparent? That would work for me too ^^