Kay. Day got a bit more quiet. I vaguely remembered running into this weirdness before. It's 'cause apparently opacity creates a new stacking context. Doing z

Kay. Day got a bit more quiet. I vaguely remembered running into this weirdness before. It's 'cause apparently opacity creates a new stacking context. Doing z-index:1;position: relative; does same thing. The rule that seems to be breaking everything is the one that forces a default opaque background on everything with dark text. For it to break this, there must be overlapping content, but haven't found it yet. But enough to know what was going on..