I have been trying for days to find a method that will show text input fields and select drop-downs with transparency (about 70% - I already have the transparent PNG). The thread at http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?573819-Input-fileds-as-transparent comes close, but my submit button (image) has a transparent PNG behind it which looks bad. Also, I need the select drop-downs to have this transparency if possible. I don’t know if this will also work for radio buttons and check boxes, but that would be super.
Basically, I want the background to show through, but have a little of the white color of the input fields to show. It needs to work across all browsers, but ancient browsers can just degrade to white.
Any ideas? It’s amazing how little information is available on how to do this.
While this works, I still have the issue of the white box behind my submit button (image). Also, I need this functionality for radio buttons, check boxes and select drop downs.
I need this functionality for radio buttons, check boxes and select drop downs.
These are much more difficult to style. You might be better of resorting to JavaScript for something like that. If you Google “jQuery forms” or something like that, you’ll see some nice examples of very fancy forms that you can’t reliably do with just HTML and CSS.