Invisible wrote:
> Yes, that's right. Somehow they put text ON TOP OF an image. Not only 
> that, but somehow they put one image ON TOP OF another image, WITH 
> TRANSPARENCY. I have no idea how that's possible.

http://w3schools.com/css/

> Last time I checked, there are two ways to put an image into a web page. 
> You can use the IMG tag, which inserts an image in amoungst the text. 
> (But you cannot put anything over the top of this image.) Alternatively, 
> you can set the page background image, which is obviously behind 
> *everything*. That means you can put things over the top of it.

It's still an img tag. You just need to use CSS on it.

> (I have to find out what tags and classes exist in the HTML and what 
> they contain, then see where they end up on the rendered page, and then 
> see what CSS is applied to them, and lookup what images are being 
> referenced, and then see the JavaScript that's manipulating them, and...)

Welcome to modern web programming.

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