This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.background
{
width: 400px;
height: 266px;
background: url('/img/eg_tulip.jpg') no-repeat;
border: 1px solid black;
}
div.transbox
width: 338px;
height: 204px;
margin:30px;
background-color: #ffffff;
/* for IE */
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
/* CSS3 standard */
opacity:0.6;