How do you make an input field opacity not effect the text color inside it?

Question

I have a dark/black background image and a white input field. I gave the input field an opacity of 50% and I want the text/value to be solid white(#fff). BUT when I apply th

Answer 1

Why not simply make a half-transparent png and use that as background image instead of setting the input opacity? Or if you don't have to support IE8- you can also use rgba().