opacity help

[Jose Jeria]

What I want is to have a menu with opacity, but only the "container".
The menu options should not be faded, works now with the code below,
but if I set the position of the DIV to absolute it does not work anymore.
Dont want to use 2 divs for the effect.

/JOse Jeria

<div style="background-color:#cccccc; width:200; filter:alpha(opacity=40);">
<table border="1" width="200">
<tr>
<td><span style="position:relative;">1</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="position:relative;">2</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="position:relative;">3</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

[Jose Jeria]

Hmm..

<div style="position:absolute; left:100; top:100;
width:200;">
<table border="1" width="200" style="background-
color:#cccccc; filter:alpha(opacity=40);">

<tr>
<td><span style="position:relative;">1</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="position:relative;">2</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="position:relative;">3</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

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