Re: Opacity applying to child elements

Maybe what he's looking for is applying opacity to the background but not
the child elements.

Applying opacity will create a stacking context/offscreen bitmap that
contains the element and all its children. This bitmap will be composited
with alpha.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:41 PM, "Gérard Talbot" <www-style@gtalbot.org>wrote:

>
> Le Ven 18 janvier 2013 9:12, Mohammed Kashim a écrit :
> > When applying opacity to say a div, it is also applied to anything within
> > the div.
>
>
> Can you upload a reduced test on an accessible webpage showing,
> demonstrating this?
>
>
> > There are various different hacks to get around this and they all
> > work fairly well but the opacity property should have a way to specify if
> > it is applied to all child elements or only the element which is
> targeted.
> >
> > Mo
>
> "
> Name:   opacity
> (...)
> Inherited:      no
> (...)
> If the object is a container element, then the effect is as if the
> contents of the container element were blended against the current
> background using a mask where the value of each pixel of the mask is
> <alphavalue>.
> "
> 3.2. Transparency: the 'opacity' property
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#transparency
>
> When applying opacity to a container div, then it should not apply and
> does not apply to its children.
>
> Gérard
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