`background-blend-mode` CSS property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

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The background-blend-mode CSS property sets how an element's background images should blend with each other and with the element's background color.

Blending modes should be defined in the same order as the background-image property. If the blending modes' and background images' list lengths are not equal, it will be repeated and/or truncated until lengths match.

Try it

background-blend-mode: normal;

background-blend-mode: multiply;

background-blend-mode: hard-light;

background-blend-mode: difference;

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="example-container">
    <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
  </div>
</section>

#example-element {
  background-color: green;
  background-image: url("../../../../../../shared-assets/images/examples/balloon.jpg");
  width: 250px;
  height: 305px;
}

Syntax

css

/* One value */
background-blend-mode: normal;

/* Two values, one per background */
background-blend-mode: darken, luminosity;

/* Global values */
background-blend-mode: inherit;
background-blend-mode: initial;
background-blend-mode: revert;
background-blend-mode: revert-layer;
background-blend-mode: unset;

Values

<blend-mode>: The blending mode to be applied. There can be several values, separated by commas.

Formal definition

Initial value	`normal`
Applies to	All elements. In SVG, it applies to container elements, graphics elements, and graphics referencing elements.. It also applies to `::first-letter` and `::first-line`.
Inherited	no
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	Not animatable

Formal syntax

background-blend-mode = 
  <'mix-blend-mode'>#  

<mix-blend-mode> = 
  <blend-mode>  |
  plus-lighter  

<blend-mode> = 
  normal       |
  darken       |
  multiply     |
  color-burn   |
  lighten      |
  screen       |
  color-dodge  |
  overlay      |
  soft-light   |
  hard-light   |
  difference   |
  exclusion    |
  hue          |
  saturation   |
  color        |
  luminosity

Examples

Basic example

css

.item {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  background: url("image1.png"), url("image2.png");
  background-blend-mode: screen;
}

Try out different blend modes

<div id="div"></div>
<select id="select">
  <option>normal</option>
  <option>multiply</option>
  <option selected>screen</option>
  <option>overlay</option>
  <option>darken</option>
  <option>lighten</option>
  <option>color-dodge</option>
  <option>color-burn</option>
  <option>hard-light</option>
  <option>soft-light</option>
  <option>difference</option>
  <option>exclusion</option>
  <option>hue</option>
  <option>saturation</option>
  <option>color</option>
  <option>luminosity</option>
</select>

#div {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  background: url("br.png"), url("tr.png");
  background-blend-mode: screen;
}

document.getElementById("select").onchange = (event) => {
  document.getElementById("div").style.backgroundBlendMode =
    document.getElementById("select").selectedOptions[0].innerHTML;
};
console.log(document.getElementById("div"));

Specifications

Specification
Compositing and Blending Module Level 2 # background-blend-mode

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`background-blend-mode`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 35 (Release date: 2014-05-20) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 30 (Release date: 2014-06-10) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 22 (Release date: 2014-06-03) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 8 (Release date: 2014-10-16) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 35 (Release date: 2014-05-20) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 30 (Release date: 2014-06-10) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 22 (Release date: 2014-06-17) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 8 (Release date: 2014-09-17) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 3 (Release date: 2015-04-10) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 37 (Release date: 2014-09-03) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 8 (Release date: 2014-09-17) footnote Full support

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Full support: Full support

background-blend-mode CSS property

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`background-blend-mode` CSS property