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17th March 2008 - Link Blog

A brief introduction to Opacity and RGBA. The CSS opacity property is inherited by an element’s children; opacity set using the new rgba() declaration in CSS 3 differs in that it is not inherited.

Posted 17th March 2008 at 2 am

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