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I have this site with a banner on top and I have put the menu on the lower part of the banner, I want the background of my menu to be transparent and I have tried using:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='uploads/images/navbg.png', sizingMethod='scale');

I have a transparent PNG already that works in FireFox. It seems the filter for IE works for sub-menus but not for the top level menu (which is actually the one I want to be transparent).

I am using cssmenu.tpl as my template. Could somebody give me an idea of where I should apply the filter? I have tried many different places but I get strange results.

Also: Is there any way to divide the width of my menu (percentage-wise), regardless of the number of top elements I have?

Thanks

maybe like this?

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg67554

Yeah that doesn't really work either.

When I do the progid thing it does perform some transparency but it seems to be applied to the text rather than the background. What am I doing wrong? 

can you post a link? that would help