Fixing Text and Image questions

Question

Is there a way to make the back ground translucent so that
you can vagly see the background image. Like some way to change the
opacity in a container?
How come when I create a div tage and insert a picture in
there. I hit enter right after the picture to type in text there is
spacing from the top of the picture to the top of the container? I
want it so that top of the picture still remains flush. I can't
figure out how to keep it there.The only soluction I came up with
is to hit shift enter then type txt below. That keeps the container
flush with the top. Oh I forgot to mention I also have it set to
float left. Can someone help me with this problem.
One last question. I have test on the left hand side of the
page going down, in a menu fashing. I hit shift enter after each
row so the spacing is somewhat close. But when I try to indent a
row it indents the whole thing. Is there a way to just indent a row
buy itself if the row was created using shift enter?
Thanks for being so helpful :)

Answer 1

>>How come when I create a div tage and insert a
picture in there. I
hit enter right after the picture to type in text there is
spacing from
the top of the picture to the top of the container?
I'll guess that you're using design view. When you hit
<enter> and your
cursor is to the right of your image, Dreamweaver puts the
image in <p>
tags. <p> tags have an inherent margin, which is why
you're seeing space
above the image. You can add some css code to the head of
your page (or
add it to your external style sheet) as such -
p {margin: 0;}
>>I hit shift enter after each row so the spacing is
somewhat close.
Try using css to control your spacing, instead of using
shift-enter.
Likewise, you can also use css to take care of your indents.
BUT...it would be good to see your page, instead of guessing
how you
have set things up. Do you have a link?