QUOTE(Sandi @ 6 Apr, 2008 - 12:51 PM)

Your explanation isn't clear at all, but the only thing you have transparent is .boxtext {}.
You do not say what the background-color of the box that boxtext goes into is. If undefined it will be the body color.
Your links have the body color unless you defined a box background, so the only link backgrounds you have to define then is hover and active.
Please supply more information.
Hello again - ok lets try this..:-)
what I would like is to have the colour behind the text being in a, lets say 30% transparent white, or even better having the whole cell in 30% white and when hovering change it to, lets say lime.
CODE
a:link { color: #6885fa; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; background-color: #fff; text-decoration: none; padding: 2px 4px 2px 1px; }
a:visited { color: #6885fa; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; background-color: #fff; text-decoration: none; padding: 2px 4px 2px 1px; }
a:hover { color: #242625; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; background-color: #0f0; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; padding: 2px 4px 2px 1px; }
a:active { color: #fff; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; }
*edit*