title: Chrome isn't correctly displaying "rgba()" styles in some element backgrounds... (no alpha blending)
body: <p>I'm putting together a page, and am really struggling with backgrounds across browsers.</p>
  
  <p>The page uses a number of alpha-blended backgrounds, box shadows and border-radii and it is composited almost entirely using inline styles (essentially there are few/no CSS classes used).</p>
  
  <p>IE9 is my primary browser, and in it, the page looks great. However, on Chrome (and I'm told Firefox), most of my alpha-blended backgrounds render either not-at-all (transparent), or as solid colors! I'm using Standards Mode with an HTML5 !DOCTYPE declaration, so it's not as though I'm leveraging IE quirks or anything!</p>
  
  <p>Clearly on IE versions before 9, the backgrounds (and other things are problematic). But I'm not concerned with supporting ancient software, and those users get a browsing experience that they deserve.</p>
  
  <p>The common refrain for years has been that "transparency on IE sucks!", so I was comfortable in expecting that if I got it to work adequately on IE (typically the worst platform), then the others would just fall in line, but here I am struggling in the opposite direction! I'm using the standard "rgba(r,g,b,a);" directive on the "background-Color" attribute so I'm not using any radical DirectX filters or other magic, nevertheless, on (NOT Internet Explorer 9+) browsers, I'm getting some non-alpha-blended results (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't).</p>
  
  <p>The site can be previewed at: <a href="https://net-xpert.com/" rel="nofollow" title="https://net-xpert.com/">https://net-xpert.com/</a> -- All of the pull-down menus are supposed to have translucent backgrounds, and so too the hovering link-bar at the bottom of the page. Also if you go to the "Ask us a Question" page, the dialog there should have tinted backgrounds on all of the input fields... </p>
  
  <p>Oh, lastly, I am ENTIRELY LOATHE to implement ANY b/s, browser/platform-specific, 'experimental' style-codes! Anything in CSS2/3 is fine, but I simply REFUSE to use any kind of "-browser-some-quirky-CSSAttribute" styles! (I wish more developers would do this too! -- then browser manufacturers would be under greater pressure to adopt these STANDARDS and our lives would be SO MUCH EASIER, but I digress...)</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, any insight on a standards-compliant solution would be greatly appreciated (even if it's just a communal acknowledgement that "ya, Chrome et al is currently not implementing this correctly...", at least then I'll know there's nothing to be done about it...)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>