Help with comments on my div layout?

I've been trying for some time to place my comments in this area, I need full opacity on comments, yet wish to keep the existing opacity on the background, also wish to have comments resized smaller and placed in a scroll, the whole mod can be a scroll, either way! I know all the diff codes, they just keep clashing with eachother! please help!

.mpd5{

width:450px;

height:800px;

position:absolute;

top:780px;

left:25px;

z-index:1;

filter:alpha(opacity=50);-moz-opacity:...

background:url('http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/... repeat top left scroll;

background-color:transparent;

border:8px groove;border-color:990033;

color:990033;

font: 16pt Papyrus;

text-decoration:none;

}

Help with comments on my div layout?

opacity: .5;

filter: alpha(opacity=50);

that won't work in all browsers, as well as your Papyrus font, that will not render if someone does not have the font installed on their computer, you want to use more than one font in your font-family.

Safari and Mozilla

These browsers support opacity. It requires a fraction value, percentages are not allowed.

Explorer Windows

Explorer Windows requires:

filter: alpha(opacity=50);

Note that an element must have layout for a filter to work.

You must specify either a width or a height for any element you want to be opaque, (except for form fields, because they have a default width set). This is a consequence of the way Microsoft defines filters.