The opacity style affects the whole element and everything within it. The correct answer to this is to use an rgba background colour instead. The CSS is fairly simple: .myelement { background: rgba(200, 54, 54, 0.5); } …where the first three numbers are the red, green and blue values for your background colour, and the … Read more
now you can use rgba in CSS properties like this: .class { background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); } 0.5 is the transparency, change the values according to your design. Live demo http://jsfiddle.net/EeAaB/ more info http://css-tricks.com/rgba-browser-support/
Just add this code to your image css body{ background: /* top, transparent black, faked with gradient */ linear-gradient( rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7) ), /* bottom, image */ url(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1614030424754-24d0eebd46b2); } Reference: linear-gradient() – CSS | MDN UPDATE: Not all browsers support RGBa, so you should have a ‘fallback color’. This color … Read more
opacity applies to the whole element, so if you have a background, border or other effects on that element, those will also become transparent. If you only want the text to be transparent, use rgba. #foo { color: #000; /* Fallback for older browsers */ color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; … Read more
Setting these (exactly like I have written) has served me when I needed it: -moz-opacity: 0.70; opacity:.70; filter: alpha(opacity=70);
The site documentation gives the answer: background: fade(@blue, 20%); The function name is fade not alpha according to that document.
I am also looking for an answer to this question, (to clarify, I want to be able to draw an image with user defined opacity such as how you can draw shapes with opacity) if you draw with primitive shapes you can set fill and stroke color with alpha to define the transparency. As far … Read more
I’m amazed by everyone else’s MUCH more complicated answers. XML You can very simply define the alpha in the color definition of the button (or any other view) in your xml: android:color=”#66FF0000″ // Partially transparent red In the above example, the color would be a partially transparent red. When defining the color of a view, … Read more
You can use CSS linear-gradient() with rgba(). div { width: 300px; height: 200px; background: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.5), rgba(255,255,255,.5)), url(“https://i.imgur.com/xnh5x47.jpg”); } span { background: black; color: white; } <div><span>Hello world.</span></div>
Use rgba! .alpha60 { /* Fallback for web browsers that don’t support RGBa */ background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); /* RGBa with 0.6 opacity */ background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); /* For IE 5.5 – 7*/ filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99000000, endColorstr=#99000000); /* For IE 8*/ -ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#99000000, endColorstr=#99000000)”; } In addition to this, you have to declare background: transparent … Read more