Making a Background Color Transparent
One thing I didn't introduce while discussing background colors is the value of transparent for the background-color property. There's a method to my madness, of course: I wanted to introduce background images so you could get the full value of this very important CSS option.
Example 8-6 describes the table used earlier, this time with a background image set for the body. You'll also notice that I've changed the .highlight class to have a background-color property value set to transparent.
Example 8-6. Setting up a transparent background color
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> ...
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