Hi,
I'm quite new to html and css as in I have just learned on a website called code avengers. I would like to learn some coding and have taught myself to set up a business page for my friend. I read some great reviews about your html editor and I'm currently testing it before I buy in a couple of days.

Onto the problem, I like using the function that I titled this as background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5); but I can't seem to get it working. I can get background: rgb(255, 0, 0); to work just fine but it doesn't seem to agree with the transparency option. I have looked at other ways of doing this but as I know little to nothing about divs yet, which is what I seem to be finding I can't really use them and understand how they work.

Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong that is stopping the transparency option from working with rgba.
If that is not possible can you please advise on another way I can do this such as adding class="???" and then setting opacity for that section. However this is a rather long winded way to do it when it's quite easy to set up rgba.

I'll attach a file but there is little to no content in this as I have just started it tonight and found the problem right away. I'll be adding more content tomorrow. If you would like more content please ask and I'll send it when I have it.

Hi Ruaidhri.summers,
This works for me.

Worked for me....
background-color: rgba (255,0,0,.5); (bubblegum pink instead of red)

Hi, Eric, Paintbrush

I found that if I opened it in Firefox it seems to work but doesn't work in IE 8.
Found that to make it work in IE as they don't support RGBA I need to create a PHP or use a fallback color using hex and set the correct color, which is a bitch to find but I can get it close enough.

Thanks for the reply

I found this "solution" for IE8 issues:
http://theie8countdown.com/

Haha, I love it. It's just what I need to add as a link to my page.
That is defo finding its way on there somehow.
XD