#Opacity Archives - Lena Design

The CSS opacity property sets the opacity of an element. The opacity property can take a value from 0.0 to 1.0 (default 1).

Example 1:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
  background-color: #e76f51;
  opacity: 0.5;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>


<p>The following div element's opacity is 0.5. Note that both the text and the background-color are affected by the opacity level:</p>

<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam semper diam at erat pulvinar, at pulvinar felis blandit...</div>

</body>
</html>

Output:

The following div element’s opacity is 0.5. Note that both the text and the background-color are affected by the opacity level:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam semper diam at erat pulvinar, at pulvinar felis blandit…

When using the opacity property to add transparency to the background of an element, all of its child elements become transparent as well. This can make the text inside a fully transparent element hard to read. If you don’t want to apply opacity to the child elements, use RGBA colour values (more about colours in HTML/CSS you can here and here.)

Example 2:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
  background-color: #2a9d8f;
  padding: 10px;
}

div.first {
  opacity: 0.1;
}

div.second {
  opacity: 0.3;
}

div.third {
  opacity: 0.6;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<p>Note: The opacity property adds transparency to the background of an element, and to all of its child elements as well. This makes the text inside a transparent element hard to read:</p>

<div class="first"><p>opacity 0.1</p></div>
<div class="second"><p>opacity 0.3</p></div>
<div class="third"><p>opacity 0.6</p></div>
<div><p>opacity 1 (default)</p></div>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Note: The opacity property adds transparency to the background of an element, and to all of its child elements as well. This makes the text inside a transparent element hard to read:

opacity 0.1

opacity 0.3

opacity 0.6

opacity 1 (default)

Example 3, with RGBA colours value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
  background: rgb(76, 175, 80);
  padding: 10px;
}

div.first {
  background: rgba(76, 175, 80, 0.1);
}

div.second {
  background: rgba(76, 175, 80, 0.3);
}

div.third {
  background: rgba(76, 175, 80, 0.6);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="first"><p>10% opacity</p></div>
<div class="second"><p>30% opacity</p></div>
<div class="third"><p>60% opacity</p></div>
<div><p>default</p></div>

</body>
</html>

Output:

10% opacity

30% opacity

60% opacity

default

The opacity property is often used with the :hover selector to change opacity on mouse-over:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
img {
  opacity: 0.5;
}

img:hover {
  opacity: 1.0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<p>The opacity property is often used together with the :hover selector to change the opacity on mouse-over:</p>
<img src="https://lenadesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cycling-animation.jpg" alt="bike" width="170" height="100">
<img src="https://lenadesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/birthday-cake.jpg" alt="cake" width="170" height="100">
<img src="https://lenadesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/blog-rocket.jpg" alt="computer" width="170" height="100">

</body>
</html>

Output:

The opacity property is often used together with the :hover selector to change the opacity on mouse-over:

To create the text in transparent box, first, create a <div> element (class=”background”) with a background image, and a border. Then we create another <div> element (class=”transbox”) inside the first <div>. The <div class=”transbox”> have a background colour, and a border – the div is transparent. Inside the transparent <div>, we can add some text inside a <p> element.

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.background {
  background: url(14.jpg) repeat;
  border: 2px solid black;
}

div.transbox {
  margin: 30px;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  border: 1px solid black;
  opacity: 0.6;
}

div.transbox p {
  margin: 5%;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #000000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="background">
  <div class="transbox">
    <p>This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.</p>
  </div>
</div>

</body>

Output:

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