Force absolutely-positioned elements to inherit transparency

Question

When an element is given an opacity, all static and relative children of the element are rendered with partial transparency. However, elements with position: absolute (or position: fixed) do not inherit this, and are instead rendered at full opacity unless specifically told otherwise.

Now, I could replace assignments to style.opacity with a call to a function that performs the assignment, then loops through all children, getting their computed style and seeing if their position property warrants the addition of its own style.opacity... but that's a bit of a nuke.

I also know that I could add opacity: inherit to the appropriate elements, but this only works if they are direct children of the faded element - what if they're descendants?

I'd like to know if there is a way to force elements to inherit the correct transparency.

Side-note: IE performs the way I want when I use filter:alpha(...), interestingly enough.

Answer 1

So as it turned out, the answer was simply "make sure the absolute elements have a relative container that is affected by the transparency". I forgot to.