# CSS transparency

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [November 24, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115 "2005-11-24T22:40:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Harjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/harjo/32/4873_2.png) [@Harjo](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Harjo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115/1 "2005-11-24T22:40:46Z")

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The help file of Servoy Developer 2.2.2 and the tutoral says that we can use transparent background-color in CSS, like this:

background-color: transparent;

This isn’t working in 2.2.2.  
Am I doing something wrong here?

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**Author:** ![maarten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@maarten](https://forum.servoy.com/u/maarten)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115/2 "2005-11-28T10:08:09Z")

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Was this working before?  
What element are you trying to set as transparant?

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**Author:** ![Harjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/harjo/32/4873_2.png) [@Harjo](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Harjo)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115/3 "2005-11-28T10:15:40Z")

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No this has never worked for me!

I have tested it on a field, for example.

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**Author:** ![maarten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@maarten](https://forum.servoy.com/u/maarten)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115/4 "2005-11-28T10:28:57Z")

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OK, here’s what I have after testing:

tableview:  
no tranparancy with stylesheet, transparant property also doesn’t work

listview:  
no tranparancy with stylesheet, transparant property does work

recordview:  
no tranparancy with stylesheet, transparant property does work

Will check with dev team, to what extend we are able to override LAF etc.

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**Author:** ![Harjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/harjo/32/4873_2.png) [@Harjo](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Harjo)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115/5 "2005-11-28T12:22:34Z")

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I would love to see this work for fields, buttons, etc..

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**Author:** ![maarten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@maarten](https://forum.servoy.com/u/maarten)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115/6 "2005-12-01T14:01:46Z")

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Sorry but the Sun html kit doesn’t support “background-color: transparent”  
right now

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**Author:** ![mnorman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@mnorman](https://forum.servoy.com/u/mnorman)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/css-transparency/5115/7 "2005-12-02T12:48:59Z")

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> maarten:  
> Sorry but the Sun html kit doesn’t support “background-color: transparent”  
> right now

The “background-color: transparent” property value has also now been  
removed from the Servoy CSS style properties list in all formats of the  
Servoy 2.2.3 documentation as well.

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Marc Norman  
Servoy