HTML background box & picture fading

This is a couple of the html codes i know and have used before.
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this is a background box code that you can put a picture into then have text over the top of it.
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<table height=300 width=300 background= the url of your picture goes into here border=4>
<tbody><tr><td valign=top><p> your text goes into here </p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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This is html picture fading code.
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<img style="filter: alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0, style=2)"src=" your picture url goes into here">
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the setting for both those codes can be changed for different effects etc.
ie.. height, width, valign=top/bottom/center, border=0-10, opacity= any number,style= any number, etc.
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you can also put both these codes together, add the picture fading code into the background code where it says.. "the url of your picture goes here"
Here's one i made for a marvel movies forum using that effect.
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cool huh!!!

Very cool...HTML gets a little hard to memorize.
That's why I always copy and pate it on to notepad.

Neat stuff Thanks for the share. Saved!

Thanks guys, yeh html is very hard to remember, if some codes work for me then i actually do write them down... y'know, write, as in with a pen, and in a notepad, made of paper,... c'mon, you all remember what paper is dont ya ?