# Alpha colours
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-colours/17708
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [April 8, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-colours/17708 "2003-04-08T14:06:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chrisbees1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chrisbees1)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-colours/17708/1 "2003-04-08T14:06:59Z")
Hi, i expect this is a simple question to you guys but i want to be able to set an alpha in html like you can in flash.
For example have #000066 (dark blue) but at alpha 50%.
Thanks in advance, Chris
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-colours/17708/2 "2003-04-08T14:47:22Z")
i don’t think HTMl allows for alpha values…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-colours/17708/3 "2003-04-08T14:59:37Z")
nope i dont think that it does. but you might be able to find a background like that some where on the web.🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-colours/17708/4 "2003-04-08T16:31:20Z")
You can use CSS Filters to do the Alpha, but it isn’t exactly crossbrowser accurate, so I don’t recommend it.