working with Css alpha setting in <ul><LI>

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If you apply the alpha transparency to the li in a stylesheet, it gets applied to the li and anything and everything contained therein. That's the way CSS works, any child of an element cannot have a higher opacity than it's parent....

Usually, the only way to achieve this effect is to fake it - e.g. make an element LOOK like it's inside an element with a specified alpha opacity, without it actually being inside the element in the actual markup. This is usually accomplished with absolute positioning and a good knowledge of cross-browser CSS positioning.