I do not want to inherit the child opacity from the parent in CSS

Question

I do not want to inherit the child opacity from the parent in CSS.

I have one div which is the parent, and I have another div inside the first div which is the child.

I want to set the opacity property in the parent div, but I don't want the child div to inherit the opacity property.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Instead of using opacity, set a background-color with rgba, where 'a' is the level of transparency.

So instead of:

background-color: rgb(0,0,255); opacity: 0.5; 

use

background-color: rgba(0,0,255,0.5); 

Answer 2

Opacity is not actually inherited in CSS. It's a post-rendering group transform. In other words, if a <div> has opacity set you render the div and all its kids into a temporary buffer, and then composite that whole buffer into the page with the given opacity setting.

What exactly you want to do here depends on the exact rendering you're looking for, which is not clear from the question.