modifying the opacity of tables?

[Rookie]

Does anyone know if it is possible to make the opacity of nested table independant from its parent table?

I am using the following command to set the opacity of a table to 40%
style="filter:alpha(opacity=40)"

The trouble I am running into is that the style command is effecting all the nested tables, which is fading out the text. I have been trying to make a html version of a flash header so any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
rookie

[fizzydigital]

Just a guess, but could you just apply the style to the <TD> elements that you need it to be in rather than the whole table?

[Rookie]

I tried that but had no luck. I ended up creating background images from slices of an image for the table. Probably not the best way to go but it worked. Thanks for the responce.

Jon

[Boro_Bob]

Maybe you could try using DIVS for layout, instead of tables. It might work with nested DIVS.