The dilemma: I am trying to make a text area for a guild main page on Neopets. I have an image that I wish to use, but lack the proper program to do what I wish to do. The guild I am in on another account has a layout with lovely text areas using see-through backgrounds. The person who made the layout has put opaque-ish white boxes in the place that the text areas sit.
As I said, I lack the program in which I could do that, and was wondering if I could do something to the text areas themselves.

So, the real question, instead of making a coloured background for my text areas, can I simply make them have an opaque-see-through idea to them, so that I could still faintly see my background through them?

If they former paragraph did not describe the guild layout well enough, forgive me. I would link you to it so that you could see, but as it is a private guild now, you cannot see it.

I hope someone can help me out, and I thank whoever manages to in advance.

You can set a background for the textarea like so:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
input, textarea
{ background-image: url(bg.gif);
filter: alpha(opacity=50);
font-family: tahoma,arial,verdana;
color: #000000;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #000000;
border-width: 1px }
-->
</style>

the italicized portion should make it 'see-through'. HTH.

Thanks!

I am going to assume that I don't actually have to put in a background image for the text area? I hope to put two or so small text areas on one background. Hopefully that code will work without an image...

Thanks again.