# CSS and transparency not working together?

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**Created:** [February 15, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-and-transparency-not-working-together/137476 "2005-02-15T01:44:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalvi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@dalvi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dalvi)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-and-transparency-not-working-together/137476/1 "2005-02-15T01:44:59Z")

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I have to apply some effects (alpha especially) over some texts formated using CSS.

For alpha to work you need to embed the font. Once you embed the font, goodbye CSS. I know this is how it’s supposed to work but I wonder if any of you has a clever solution for this…