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Rob
Rob

Reputation: 8195

CSS opacity and child elements

<style type="text/css">
div#foo {
    background: #0000ff;
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;

    opacity: 0.30;
    filter: alpha(opacity = 30);
}
div#foo>div {
    color: black;
    opacity:1;
    filter: alpha(opacity = 100);
}
</style>

<div id="foo">
    <div>Lorem</div>
    <div>ipsum</div>
    <div>dolor</div>
</div>

In the above example, the opacity of div#foo is inherited by child elements, causing the text to become nearly unreadable. I suppose it's wrong to say it is inherited, the opacity is applied to the parent div and the children are part of that, so attempting to override it for the child elements doesn't work because technically they are opaque.

I typically just use an alpha png background image in such cases, but today i'm wondering if there's a better way to make a background of a div semi-transparent without affecting the contents.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 14938

Answers (3)

fuxia
fuxia

Reputation: 63556

You may use rgba().

div#foo
{
    background: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.3);
}

To make it work in old Internet Explorers use CSS PIE. There are some limitations, but those are handled in a backwards compatible way: the RGB value will be rendered correctly and the opacity will be ignored.

Upvotes: 40

yasink
yasink

Reputation: 171

The best way is setting transparent png to background..

Upvotes: 7

Shawn Steward
Shawn Steward

Reputation: 6825

If you use opacity, you'd have to put them in separate DIV's and then line them up together. The background DIV would have the lower opacity, and foreground DIV would have your content with 100% opacity.

Upvotes: 5

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