Mosaic – Sliding Boxes

HTML & CSS
1

Is anyone familiar with the mosaic sliding boxes script?
I am having issues with :x:x IE :x:x !!!

The paragraph text is meant to be white, but IE shows it as a light grey, like there is a transparency on the text.

Mosaic CSS

/*
	Mosaic - Sliding Boxes and Captions jQuery Plugin
	Version 1.0.1
	www.buildinternet.com/project/mosaic
	
	By Sam Dunn / One Mighty Roar (www.onemightyroar.com)
	Released under MIT License / GPL License
*/

/*General Mosaic Styles*/

html, body, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, a, blockquote, pre, code, hr, img, form, fieldset, legend, label, textarea, span, em, strong, sub, sup, cite, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li {margin: 0; padding: 0;}

.mosaic-block {
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	overflow:hidden;
	width:280px;
	height:250px;
	margin-right:10px;
	background:#111 url(../img/progress.gif) no-repeat center center;
	border:0px solid #fff;
	clear: left;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}

	.mosaic-backdrop {
		display:none;
		position:absolute;
		top:0;
		height:100%;
		width:100%;
		background:#D31145;
	}
	
	.mosaic-overlay {
		display:none;
		z-index:5;
		position:absolute;
		width:100%;
		height:100%;
		background:#D3BBB0;
	}
	
		/*** Custom Animation Styles (You can remove/add any styles below) ***/
		.circle .mosaic-overlay {
			background:url(../img/hover-magnify.png) no-repeat center center;
			opacity:0;
			-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=00)";
			filter:alpha(opacity=00);
			display:none;
		}
		
		.fade .mosaic-overlay {
			opacity:0;
			-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=00)";
			filter:alpha(opacity=00);
			background:url(../img/bg-black.png);
		}
		
		.bar .mosaic-overlay {
			bottom:-100px;
			height:100px;
			background:url(../img/bg-black.png);
		}
		
		.bar2 .mosaic-overlay {
			bottom:-50px;
			height:100px;
			opacity:0.8;
			-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80)";
			filter:alpha(opacity=80);
		}
		
			.bar2 .mosaic-overlay:hover {
				opacity:1;
				-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100)";
				filter:alpha(opacity=100);
			}
		
		.bar3 .mosaic-overlay {
			top:-100px;
			height:100px;
			background:url(../img/bg-black.png);
		}
		/*** End Animation Styles ***/


.clearfix{ display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; }
						
				.details{ margin:15px 20px; }	
					h4{
	line-height:80%;
	color:#fff;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 25pt;
	font-weight: bold;
	display: block;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}
					para{
	color:#FFF;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
}
					a{ text-decoration:none; }



<div class="mosaic-block fade">
<a href="sectors.htm" target="_blank" class="mosaic-overlay">
<div class="details">
<h4>HEADING</h4><p>
		<para>We are blah.</para>				
</div></a>
<div class="mosaic-backdrop"><img src="images/market-sectors.jpg"/></div>
	</div>

Any ideas on how to fix this?

2

It’s most likely to do with this:

.bar2 .mosaic-overlay {
			bottom:-50px;
			height:100px;
			[COLOR="#FF0000"]opacity:0.8;
			-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80)";
			filter:alpha(opacity=80);[/COLOR]
		}

That’s likely to cause text to have slight opacity, letting the background through. A live link would enable more definite conclusions.

3

thanks ralph.m, but that didn’t fix the problem.
The problem seems to lie here:
para{
color:#FFF;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
The h4 tag shows up as white on IE, but the para which contains the description is still very faint and grey.

4

How did you test it? It you comment out that code, make sure to refresh your browser.

5

I did refresh, about two hundred times :slight_smile:

What did the trick in the end was to change the para tag to a div class and it is rendering OK across IE and other browsers, although not sure why…

6

O, I didn’t notice you had <para> </para> tags in there. The problem is that these tags don’t exist in HTML. :slight_smile:

7

LOL as a novice I had no idea that that was the case, so I just did what I always do “trial and error”.
Thanks ralph.m :slight_smile: