Thanks!

My blog is: http://www.moderncommonplacebook.com

WordPress.com bloggeres pay for CSS Upgrades and all CSS editing is theme specific. Many themes here are adapted to run on this software.

Thank you for understanding my concerns. Given how many unanswered WordPress.com support questions there are http://en.forums.wordpress.com/view/no-replies and the number of unanswered CSS Forum thread there are http://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization it's my opinion that the last thing we need is more WordPress.org bloggers posting for CSS editing help here.

Timethief - thanks for your posts. The user had already been made aware that there was a separate forum for self hosted users twice in this thread. Additionally, the actual issue was not specific or relevant to hosting in any way. It was something that any user of WordPress could have experienced. Therefore, in this instance, I do not see any harm in the advice I offered.

I view this forum is a friendly, supportive environment for all lovers of WordPress. However, I understand your concerns and will take them on board for the future.

We already have 30% of those posting here who do not even belong here. Do NOT encourage them to return to the wrong support forum again.

Go to WordPress.ORG support forums and volunteer there please if that's your thing.

The opacity property will work with most modern browsers. However, to make sure the background appears semi-transparent to users of older versions of Internet Explorer, I recommend that you add the following two extra lines of code (appearing below in bold):

#container {<br /> padding-bottom: 20px;<br /> background: #222;<br /> box-shadow: 0 0 10px #000;<br /> opacity: 0.8;<br /> <strong>zoom: 1;<br /> filter: alpha(opacity=50);</strong><br />

These two extra lines should ensure complete cross-browser compatibility for your site. :)

This support forum is for blogs hosted at WordPress.com. If your question is about a self-hosted WordPress blog then you'll find help at the WordPress.org forums.

If you don't understand the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, you may find this information helpful.

If you forgot to include a link to your blog, you can reply and include it below. It'll help people to answer your question.

This is an automated message.

My site is DestinyMultiplayer.com

It is a gray-ish color right now, I would like it to be semi-transparent so I can kind of see the background but still read the text written.

I need baby-steps for instructions, I am very new, but learn fast,

I'm using WordPress 2012 theme, thanks so much for the help.

#wrapper {
	background: inherit;
}

To add white background back to the header area, you could add something like this:

#header {
	background: #fff;
	padding: 4.7%;
	margin-left: -4.7%;
}

You can adjust the numbers as necessary or change out the "#header" selector to "#nav" or something else if you'd like. You should experiment with the examples above until it looks how you want.

I'm building a simple blog (I have only a simple test version up) and I have a single change I want to make which (I believe) requires CSS customization.

I intend to buy the custom design feature, but I don't really have the time to learn CSS, so if someone who has the skills could give me the code, I would be super duper grateful.

What I want is for all elements except the header and the hover effect on the menu to be transparent, and all text color to remain in the default setting. Ie, no solid background colors whatsoever, only my chosen background image.

So I am designing a site for my friend for xmas and I am using the Sight theme.

I am not really understanding how custom menu's work and how to implement them well. For example on the About parent you can see that there is a bio and resume drop down but I can't make the About link stop working, ya know?

Also I would love to make that white block a little transparent. I know there's a way to do it through CSS but after reading the tutorials I need a little help.

Lastly, once I give it to him will it be hard to change the owner?

Thanks for any help and advice you can give!

Michael

h5.post-date {
border-bottom-color: none;
background:none;
}

h5 abbr {
background: none;
}

.....or..........

h5.post-date {
border-bottom-color: none;
background:transparent;
}

h5 abbr {
background: transparent;
}

I often use transparent pngs for graphics on my website callmekuchu.com. But I recently uploaded a new transparent png and it seems to be displaying strangely. You can see it here: http://callmekuchu.com/awards/ As you'll see, you can't really make out any of the detail or read anything. BUT if you click on the graphic (which is still hyperlinked to the image) you can see that it then displays properly. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

I have a similar file on the home page: callmekuchu.com, and you can see it's displaying properly. Another example: you can see the difference between earlier pngs and a more recent one here: http://callmekuchu.com/screenings/ (The Jerusalem Film Festival laurel is displaying strangely, while the rest seem fine).

Could it be something to do with my export settings in Adobe Illustrator? I've tried a bunch of settings now, but might have missed something so any ideas would be helpful. Or could it be an RGB/CMYK thing? I've noticed WordPress doesn't seem to like CMYK...

Any and all advice or suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

It didn't quite work removing the color attribute but i managed to get it to work by leaving the colour and redusing the transparency to 0.0

.menu ul li {
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0);
line-height: 15px;
position: relative;
}

.menu ul li {
    background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);
    line-height: 15px;
    position: relative;
}

.menu ul li {
    line-height: 15px;
    position: relative;
}

The background color attribute is causing the problem.

Good luck!
-Z

I have been playing around with the css on my new blog with some sucess thanks to loads of tips that others have posted here.

I have made the background to the site transparent and the header logo transparent by using a trnasparent png file.

If you look at my site the menu bar is not transparent to match the rest of the site? Is this possible to do?

http://biltarch.wordpress.com/

Thanks in advance!

I will be sure to keep fiddling with it to get some more practise!

Thankyou!