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Semi-transparent backgrounds are nice. They would be more popular, but Internet Explorer doesn't support .png transparency. There are a few clunky workarounds. Here's another that's a little less clunky.

Update: Here is probably the easiest way. You can stop reading this page now.

Update: The kind folks on css-discuss point out some other methods. I believe most of them use javascript.

Update: An article from A List Apart has more techniques (some of which are downright painful to look at...)

Update: Workaround for link bug in IE 6.0

Update: Now works in IE 5.0 (Thanks MG)

Example:

I like flowers.

For a year afterward, Pronovost and his colleagues monitored what happened. The results were so dramatic that they weren't sure whether to believe them: the ten-day line-infection rate went from 11 percent to zero. So they followed patients for fifteen more months. Only two line infections occurred during the entire period. The calculated that, in this one hospital, the checklist had prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs.

The executives weren't used to venturing into patient territory, and didn't feel they belonged there. In some places, they encountered hostility, but their involvement proved crucial. In the first month, the executives discovered that chlorhexidine soap, shown to reduce line infections, was available in less than a third of the ICUs.