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HOW TO BLUR A BACKGROUND IMAGE IN REACT

The first time I tried this, I used opacity on the image but it didn’t work like I wanted, the styling made even the overlay texts to be opaque by taking the same opacity styling with the image. And so I went into finding a solution for this and after long trials, searches, Stack Overflows, I finally stumbled unto the answer and yeah it’s kind of a trick, CSS tricks actually.

Lets create a js file and inside it have two divs, and some heading tags like below



  <div className="container">

      <div>
        <h1> CSS Tricks </h1>
        <h5>
          You can now style the second div and 
          heading tags as you see fit
        </h5>
      </div>

  </div>


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That would be enough for now, then we head over and create a css file and start writing the magic



  .container {
    position: relative;
    color: white;
    /*Note, you can change the color to your choice depending on your 
    image and what color blends with it*/
}

.container::after {
    content: "";
    opacity: 0.8;
    background: rgb(26, 31, 41) url("your picture") no-repeat fixed top;
    background-blend-mode: luminosity;
    /* also change the blend mode to what suits you, from darken, to other 
    many options as you deem fit*/
    background-size: cover;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -1;
    height: 500px;
}



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This is it. The little css that will suite your web image displays...Below is the full code image

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Hope this article meets you well and be a solution, Thanks.

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