Spry transparency question

Is it possible for the top/parent level of a Spry Menu to
have a transparent bkgd but for the drop-down menus to have a
colored bkgd? I'd like for that top level to reveal the graphic
behind it but would need the lower menu list to cover the page
items below.
Thanks - JAY

Check this out and see if it is what is causing your problem too: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/754562?decorator=print&displayFullThread=true
Gretchen

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Another transparency question. CLARIFICATION NEEDED

OH experts -- you who are unknown and unseen-- please know you are so appreciated!!
so, here's the question
have master pages set up with a picture, a screen over the picture in a certain spot.
on regular pages i place my text on that transparent screen. When printing from my small printer at home, my type & graphics are looking screened; less than 100% of their ink value.
how can i get these graphics/type to be ON TOP of the slightly transparent layer and print 100%?? why are they printing less than 100% when on the screened box from the master page? a
rent graphics on master pages underlying?
do they affect the graphics on top of them in the regular document???
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thanks for the info. its hard to be exact in describing what is going on!
But after lots of testing, i've narrowed it down to some sort of print/color settings within my programs AI & Indd -- not a problem with the files. SO -- FOR THAT i'm glad!
illustrator and indesign are printing my colors in a very muted fashion. Not black, but gray -- and a screened back color for every color.
other programs print pages fine -- dark blacks and vibrant colors.
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CS5 Spry Menu Question

Aloha,
I have the menu configured that way i want it, but for the life of me I cant figure out how to do the following.
I have a menu   home, about, contact etc......... The menu bar has two background images, one when you load the page and then the mouse over image. What i want to do is when your on the index.html page , the Menu link will be lite up in my case (blue) and then if you go off of that page the blue will go to the current page that is up on your screen.
I am not great with code, I have spent a few hours tring to figure it out, i have no idea if it can do that or not, but its prob super easy, I just dont know what setting i am looking for.
2ns Question.. Is there a way to make the Spry menu to look like this?    HOME    |   ABOUT     |      ETC
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Great thank you very much, added the code and its working
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I have a small image of a TV that is square but has a white edge.
I have used it in Photoshop and the edges that are white, that aren't part of the TV image was transparent. When I try to use the same image in Illustrator its white, and I want it to be transparent, not to have a white box with a TV floating in it.
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I am trying to use an XML dataset to draw data for my
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You need to use Spry:if like below
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