From the course: CSS: Images
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Filters overview
- [Instructor] The filter property is used to apply one or more filters to an element. It's typically used to change the appearance of images, but it can also be used for any other elements. A popular example of this is using filter blur to blur text. An important thing to note here, when you apply the filter to an element, it applies to everything within that element. So, if you have a containing element and you set filter a gray scale on it, then everything inside that element becomes gray scale. And the images, background, images, texts, whatever, even including the borders, everything turns gray scale. A filter is applied to an element by calling the filter property and one or more of its functions or methods. These functions have easily understandable names, like blur, contrast, gray scale and so on and are set using values. In this example, I've applied all the filters to an image and then turn them off in the…
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