css properties 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.

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: 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

Formal syntax

<mix-blend-mode>#

Examples

Basic example

.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"));

See also

• <blend-mode>
• mix-blend-mode