Translucent TDs

[PoorDoggie]

is there any way to make td background colors translucent?

I have a table, which is being used as a menu bar with a background. I want to make it so that when you mouse over one of the "tds" or menu options the background of that TD goes a translucent red, so that the backgroundshows through a bit. Normally I would do this with a series of pictures, but the menu will be changing a lot!

Thanks... here is the code btw:

<td background="images/index_03.gif" width="153" height="372" valign="top">
			<table width="100%" class="nav" cellpadding="2" height="100%" border="1" style="border: 1px solid">
				<tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%" valign="middle"><a href="menu.place.1" style="height: 100%; width: 100%" class="nav">Menu Item 1</a></td>
				</tr><tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%"><a href="menu.place.2" class="nav">Menu Item 2</a></td>
				</tr><tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%"><a href="menu.place.3" class="nav">Menu Item 3</a></td>
				</tr><tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%"><a href="menu.place.4" class="nav">Menu Item 4</a></td>
				</tr><tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%"><a href="menu.place.5" class="nav">Menu Item 5</a></td>
				</tr><tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%"><a href="menu.place.6" class="nav">Menu Item 6</a></td>
				</tr><tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%"><a href="menu.place.7" class="nav">Menu Item 7</a></td>
				</tr><tr>
					<td align="center" width="100%"><a href="menu.place.8" class="nav">Menu Item 8</a></td>
				</tr>
			</table>
		</td>

its the inner table's td's I want to go a translucent red

Thanks in anticipation!
Thomas

 

[obsidianchrysalis]

i don't know if that's possible. there might be a value in CSS that would do that, but i don't know. i do know that you can change the color value of a TD when the user scrolls over the cell. you might have to make translucent background images in an image editor and then have the browser swap them out with the originals when a user would scroll over them.

 

[calian]

My suggestion: make it in flash. You can put dynamic text in flash so that all your text is in plain text files and only the graphics/effects are flash.