"newstart" <lisa_haskins@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>..
> Does anyone out there have any experience using style sheets to
> overlay blocks of transparent color on top of graphics. I am trying to
> build a homepage with a background graphic and would like to position
> blocks of color over it that will still permit the graphic to show
> through.
>..

You can do this by using a repeating CSS background-image inside an
absolutely positioned, absolutely sized div-block.
The image should be a GIF-file consisting of minimun 2 pixel high, 2 pixel
wide, 2 colors. One of the two colors is transparent, the other is the
actual colorizer, and together they make for a chessboard pattern. Now you
can e.g. darken an image by using black.

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