Create a Transparent jQuery UI AutoComplete Menu

Let us quickly see how to create a Transparent jQuery UI AutoComplete Menu. Here’s some code to implement the AutoComplete Menu. We will make it transparent in a bit.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<
head>
<
title>Load Page Dynamically inside a jQuery UI Dialog</title>
<
link rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/
ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" />
<
script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/
jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></
script>
<
script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/
libs/jqueryui/1.8.1/jquery-ui.min.js">
</
script>


<
script type="text/javascript">
$(function ()
{
var names =
["james", "jake", "jaffer", "mary",
"maddy", "aaron", "annie", "keith"];
$("#tags").autocomplete({
source: names
});
});
</script>
</
head>
<
body>
<
div class="ui-widget">
<
label for="tags">Names: </label>
<
input id="tags" />
</
div>

</
body>
</
html>

By default, the menu shows up like this:

image

Now to add some transparency to the autocomplete menu, use the following CSS

<style type="text/css">
.ui-autocomplete.ui-menu
{
opacity: 0.4;
filter: alpha(opacity=40); /* for mozilla */
}
</style>

The output is as shown below:

image

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2 comments:

Test said...

You might consider adding the following cases as well...

.transparent_class {
/* IE 8 */
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)";

/* IE 5-7 */
filter: alpha(opacity=50);

/* Netscape */
-moz-opacity: 0.5;

/* Safari 1.x */
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;

/* Good browsers */
opacity: 0.5;
}

Taken from CSS-Tricks: Cross Browser Opacity

Suprotim Agarwal said...

Thanks Elijah for the cross browser css tips