I am having trouble applying a blur effect on a semi-transparent overlay div. I'd like everything behind the div the be blurred, like this:
Here is a jsfiddle which doesn't work: http://jsfiddle.net/u2y2091z/
Any ideas how to make this work? I'd like to keep this as uncomplicated as possible and have it be cross-browser. Here is the CSS I'm using:
#overlay {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
background:black;
background:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
filter:blur(4px);
-o-filter:blur(4px);
-ms-filter:blur(4px);
-moz-filter:blur(4px);
-webkit-filter:blur(4px);
}
Here is an example that uses svg
filter.
The idea is to use an svg
element with height
same as the #overlay
and apply the feGaussianblur
filter on it. This filter is applied on an svg
image
element. To give it an extruded effect, you could use a box-shadow
at the bottom of the overlay.
Browser Support for svg
filters.
Demo on Codepen
body {
background: #222222;
}
#container {
position: relative;
width: 450px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
img {
height: 300px;
}
#overlay {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
z-index: 1;
color: rgba(130, 130, 130, 0.5);
font-size: 50px;
text-align: center;
line-height: 100px;
box-shadow: 0 3px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
}
<div id="container">
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/450/300/sports" />
<div id="overlay">WET</div>
<svg width="450" height="100" viewBox="0 0 450 100" style="position: absolute; top: 0;">
<defs>
<filter id="blur">
<feGaussianBlur in="SourceGraphic" stdDeviation="3" />
</filter>
</defs>
<image filter="url(#blur)" xlink:href="http://lorempixel.com/450/300/sports" x="0" y="0" height="300px" width="450px" />
</svg>
</div>
Thank you for the help everyone! I was able to piece together information from everyone here and from further Googling, and I came up with the following which works in Chrome and Firefox: http://jsfiddle.net/u2y2091z/12/. I'm still working on making this work for IE and Opera.
The key is putting the content inside of the div to which the filter is applied:
<div id="mask">
<p>Lorem ipsum ...</p>
<img src="http://www.byui.edu/images/agriculture-life-sciences/flower.jpg" />
</div>
And then the CSS:
#mask {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
background-color: black;
opacity: 0.5;
filter: blur(10px);
-webkit-filter: blur(10px);
-moz-filter: blur(10px);
-o-filter: blur(10px);
-ms-filter: blur(10px);
filter: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'><filter id='svgMask'><feGaussianBlur stdDeviation='10' /></filter></svg>#svgMask");
}
So mask has the filters applied. Also note the use of url() for a filter with an <svg>
tag for the value -- that idea came from http://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/pen/xGuBr. If you happen to minify your CSS, you might need to replace any spaces in the SVG filter markup with "%20".
So now, everything inside the mask div is blurred.
Here's a possible solution.
HTML
<img id="source" src="http://www.byui.edu/images/agriculture-life-sciences/flower.jpg" />
<div id="crop">
<img id="overlay" src="http://www.byui.edu/images/agriculture-life-sciences/flower.jpg" />
</div>
CSS
#crop {
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
left: 100px;
top: 100px;
width: 450px;
height: 150px;
}
#overlay {
-webkit-filter:blur(4px);
filter:blur(4px);
width: 450px;
}
#source {
height: 300px;
width: auto;
position: absolute;
left: 100px;
top: 100px;
}
I know the CSS can be simplified and you probably should get rid of the ids. The idea here is to use a div as a cropping container and then apply blur on duplicate of the image. Fiddle
To make this work in Firefox, you would have to use SVG hack.
If you're looking for a reliable cross-browser approach today, you won't find a great one. The best option you have is to create two images (this could be automated in some environments), and arrange them such that one overlays the other. I've created a simple example below:
<figure class="js">
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/3oenmve.png" />
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/3oenmve.png?1" class="blur" />
</figure>
figure.js {
position: relative;
width: 250px; height: 250px;
}
figure.js .blur {
top: 0; left: 0;
position: absolute;
clip: rect( 0, 250px, 125px, 0 );
}
Though effective, even this approach isn't necessarily ideal. That being said, it does yield the desired result.