Semi-transparent color layer over background-image

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I have a DIV and I would like to put a pattern as background  This pattern is gray  So to make it a little more nice  I would like to put a light transparent color  layer  over  Below is what I tried but which did not work  Is there a way to put the colored layer over the background image    Here s my CSS   background  url     img bg diagonalnoise png    background-color  rgba 248  247  216  0 7

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Why so complicated  Your solution was almost right except it s a way easier to make the pattern transparent and the background color solid  PNG can contain transparencies  So use photoshop to make the pattern transparent by setting the layer to 70  and resaving your image  Then you only need one selector  Works cross browser   CSS    background      background  url     img bg diagonalnoise png      transparent png image      background-color  rgb 248  247  216       HTML    lt div class  background  gt          lt  div gt     This are the basic  A usage example follows where I switched from background to background-image but both properties works the same    x000D   x000D  body   margin  0    x000D  div   x000D     height  110px  important  x000D     padding  1em  x000D     text-transform  uppercase  x000D     font-family  Arial  Helvetica  sans-serif  x000D     font-weight  600  x000D     color  white  x000D     text-shadow  0 0 2px  333  x000D    x000D   background   x000D     background-image  url  https   www transparenttextures com patterns arabesque png      transparent png image    x000D       x000D   col-one   x000D    background-color  rgb 255  255  0   x000D    x000D   col-two   x000D    background-color  rgb 0  255  255   x000D    x000D   col-three   x000D    background-color  rgb 0  255  0   x000D    x000D   lt div class  background col-one  gt  x000D   1  Background x000D   lt  div gt   x000D   lt div class  background col-two  gt  x000D   2  Background x000D   lt  div gt   x000D   lt div class  background col-three  gt  x000D   3  Background x000D   lt  div gt   x000D   x000D   x000D    PLEASE WAIT A MINUTE  IT TAKES SOME TIME TO LOAD THE EXTERNAL PATTERNS   This website seems to be rather slow

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You need then a wrapping element with the bg image and in it the content element with the bg color    lt div id  Wrapper  gt     lt div id  Content  gt       lt  -- content here -- gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    and the css    Wrapper      background url    img bg diagonalnoise png        width 300px       height 300px      Content      background-color rgba 248 247 216 0 7        width 100        height 100

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I simply used background-image css property on the target background div  Note background-image only accepts gradient color functions  So I used linear-gradient adding the same desired overlay color twice  use last rgba value to control color opacity    Also  found these two useful resources to    Add text  or div with any other content  over the background image  Hero Image Blur background image only  without blurring the div on top  Blurred Background Image   HTML   lt div class  header div  gt   lt  div gt    lt div class  header text  gt     lt h1 gt Header Text lt  h1 gt   lt  div gt    CSS   header div     position  relative    text-align  cover    min-height  90vh    margin-top  5vh    background-position  center    background-repeat  no-repeat    background-size  cover    width  100vw    background-image  linear-gradient rgba 38  32  96  0 2   rgba 38  32  96  0 4    url  images  header img2 jpg      filter  blur 2px       header text     position  absolute    top  50     right  50     transform  translate 50   -50

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Try this  Works for me    background       background-image  url images images jpg       display  block      position  relative      background  after       content          background  rgba 45  88  35  0 7       position  absolute      top  0      left  0      right  0      bottom  0      z-index  1      background  gt          z-index  10

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You can also add opacity to your overlay color   Instead of doing  background  url     img bg diagonalnoise png    background-color  rgba 248  247  216  0 7     You can do   background  url     img bg diagonalnoise png      Then create a new style for the opacity color    colorStyle      background-color  rgba 248  247  216  0 7       opacity  0 8      Change the opacity to whatever number you want below 1  Then you make this color style the same size as your image  It should work

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Here is a more simple trick with only css    x000D   x000D   lt div class  background  gt   lt  div gt  x000D       lt style gt  x000D       background   x000D        position relative  x000D        height 50px  x000D        background-color  rgba 248  247  216  0 7   x000D        background-image  url data image png base64 iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAgAAAAICAYAAADED76LAAAAJElEQVQYV2NctWrVfwYkEBYWxojMZ6SDAmT7QGx0K1EcRBsFAADeG 3M HteAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC    x000D        x000D   x000D       background after   x000D          content      x000D          background-color inherit  x000D          position  absolute  x000D          top  0  x000D          left  0  x000D          width  100   x000D          height  100    x000D        x000D   x000D       lt  style gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Here it is    background       background url     img bg diagonalnoise png        position  relative      layer       background-color  rgba 248  247  216  0 7       position  absolute      top  0      left  0      width  100       height  100       HTML for this    lt div class  background  gt       lt div class  layer  gt       lt  div gt   lt  div gt    Of course you need to define a width and height to the  background class  if there are no other elements inside of it

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I ve used this as a way to both apply colour tints as well as gradients to images to make dynamic overlaying text easier to style for legibility when you can t control image colour profiles  You don t have to worry about z-index    HTML   lt div class  background-image  gt  lt  div gt    SASS   background-image     background  url     img bg diagonalnoise png   repeat     amp  before       content          position  absolute      top  0      left  0      right  0      bottom  0      background  rgba 248  247  216  0 7           CSS   background-image     background  url     img bg diagonalnoise png   repeat      background-image before       content          position  absolute      top  0      bottom  0      right  0      left  0      background  rgba 248  247  216  0 7         Hope it helps

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I know this is a really old thread  but it shows up at the top in Google  so here s another option   This one is pure CSS  and doesn t require any extra HTML   box-shadow  inset 0 0 0 1000px rgba 0 0 0  2     There are a surprising number of uses for the box-shadow feature

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You can also use a linear gradient and an image  http   codepen io anon pen RPweox   background    background  linear-gradient rgba 0 0 0  5   rgba 0 0 0  5        url  http   www imageurl com        This is because the linear gradient function creates an Image which is added to the background stack  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web CSS linear-gradient

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Another one with an SVG as inline overlay-image  note  if you use   inside the svg-code you have to urlencode that     background  url  data image svg xml utf8  lt svg xmlns  http   www w3 org 2000 svg  viewBox  0 0 1 1  gt  lt path fill  rgba 255  255  255  0 4   d  M0 0h1v1H0z   gt  lt  svg gt                    no-repeat center center cover               url  overlayed-image jpg   no-repeat center center cover

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You can use a semitransparent pixel  which you can generate for example here  even in base64  Here is an example with white 50    background-image  url data image png base64 iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mP8Xw8AAoMBgDTD2qgAAAAASUVORK5CYII    url    img leftpanel intro1 png   background-size  cover  cover     without uploading without extra html i guess the loading should be quicker than box-shadow or linear gradient

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From CSS-Tricks    there is a one step way to do this without z-indexing and adding pseudo elements-- requires linear gradient which I think means you need CSS3 support   tinted-image     background-image          top  transparent red        linear-gradient        rgba 255  0  0  0 45          rgba 255  0  0  0 45                your image        url image jpg

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See my answer at https   stackoverflow com a 18471979 193494 for a comprehensive overview of possible solutions     using multiple backgrounds with a linear gradient   multiple backgrounds with a generated PNG  or  styling an  after pseudoelement to act as a secondary background layer

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