background-blend-mode

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.

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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.

Syntax

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

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

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

Values

<blend-mode>

The blending mode to be applied. There can be several values, separated by commas.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

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

Examples

<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('https://mdn.mozillademos.org/files/8543/br.png'),url('https://mdn.mozillademos.org/files/8545/tr.png');
    background-blend-mode: screen;
}

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

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• <blend-mode>
• mix-blend-mode