[jQuery] Cycle plugin & opacity

[jQuery] Cycle plugin & opacity


Hi
I'm using the fade effect of the Cycle plugin to generate a slideshow
with some text overlaid on the top. The box of text should have an
opacity of 0.7.
This works well in Safari/Firefox on a Mac, but in IE the box of text
has 100% opacity.
I tried to fix it using this code:
    function onAfter() {
        $('div.banner h2').css('opacity', 0.7);
    }
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('div.banner h2').css('opacity', 0.7);
        $('div#front_banners').cycle({
            fx: 'fade',
            after: onAfter,
            clearType: 1
        });
    });
But it's not working.
Is it possible to use opacity on an element within the slide being
faded across browsers?
Thanks for any help.