transparent menu - how

[David Graham]

Hi - at the link below the left side menu is appears to be transparent
(scroll up and down a bit) letting the image below show through
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/3-column.html

puzzled as to how this is achieved - can someone explain please
David

 

[David Dorward]

Hi - at the link below the left side menu is appears to be transparent
puzzled as to how this is achieved - can someone explain please

Transparent GIF

http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/images/yellowfilter.gif

 

[David Graham]

Transparent GIF

http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/images/yellowfilter.gif

Hi
I was unable to view the image because it is referenced as
url(yellowfi.gif)
in the stylesheet which opera saved to my computer.

You knew it was called yellowfilter.gif, how did you know this was the
correct name and how does a stylesheet which incorectly identifies the .gif
as yellowfi.gif still manage to import the .gif into the final web page?
Oh, hang on the penny starts to drop - the other image when I look at the
css in Edit Plus is url(redfilte.gif) obviously truncated from redfilter.gif
I am looking at the stylesheet which is made when you choose to save a web
page with images in Opera locally to your computer. The save as in Opera
produces some unexpected changes!
When I look at the style sheet directly in my browser at
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/style.css then the names
of the .gifs have not been snipped to 8 characters - why would Opera want to
do this?
thanks for the help
David

 

[David Dorward]

You knew it was called yellowfilter.gif, how did you know this was the
correct name

Right click > Show background image

When I look at the style sheet directly in my browser at
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/style.css then the names
of the .gifs have not been snipped to 8 characters - why would Opera want
to do this?

For compatibility with FAT16 filesystems perhaps?

 

[Spartanicus]

I am looking at the stylesheet which is made when you choose to save a web
page with images in Opera locally to your computer. The save as in Opera
produces some unexpected changes!
When I look at the style sheet directly in my browser at
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/style.css then the names
of the .gifs have not been snipped to 8 characters - why would Opera want to
do this?

Opera stores files into it's local cache in 8.3 format and rewrites HTML
and CSS files accordingly. The abbreviated file names are also used if
you do a Save file with images.