Div Background Color Opacity

We can create an background layer with no content via css pseudo elements like so.

Div background color opacity. If you do not want to apply opacity to child elements use rgba color values instead see more examples below. You can change the size of the above content as per your requirements. A better solution is to use rgba which controls not only the color but the alpha transparency as well. While you could use opacity 0 5 to make it 50 transparent this has the side effect of making everything in the div semi transparent not just the background.

The image is behind the background of the parent div and the background is an inner div. If this isn t your intention save that one for another time. The above example using the transparent color background to display the image. By creating the content element nested inside a parent element like so.

Rgba 54 25 25 5. Changing the background color of a div in this example we will change the background colors of the following divs. It is a good idea to add the rbg above the rbga like i have done for older browsers that do not support rbga. Apply transparency using css opacity property.

Div id parent div id child text div div. This can make the text inside a fully transparent element hard to read. Changing the 5 to 1 0 would be fully opaque not transparent. When using the opacity property to add transparency to the background of an element all of its child elements become transparent as well.

So if you do not specify the background color of a div it will display that of its parent element.