Title: Blur background
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Blur background

 *  [Richard27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richard27/)
 * (@richard27)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blur-background/)
 * Hello WordPressers,
 * II have a question. I have a picture installed as a parallax background, on that
   picture a want to write something, and that is not so difficult but to get the
   text more clearly to the foreground I want to blur the background only just behind
   the text, so how do I do this???
 * Regards Richard

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 *  [Anthony Skelton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajskelton/)
 * (@ajskelton)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blur-background/#post-7515850)
 * You can use the CSS property filter.
 *     ```
       .image-to-blur {
         filter: blur(20px);
       }
       ```
   
 * Filter also had other tools that you can pair with blur, such as brightness, 
   contrast, grayscale, saturate, etc.
 * Here is the MDN article [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter)
 * However filter is not supported by all browsers, so check out [http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-filters](http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-filters)
   and make sure this would work for you and your visitors.
 * As another note, if this is the only place you are using your image why don’t
   you just upload the image already blurred?
 *  Thread Starter [Richard27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richard27/)
 * (@richard27)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blur-background/#post-7515907)
 * Hi Asjkelton,
 * I only want to blur the backgound of the box where i wrote something in, maybe
   i didn’t explane it very well, my english is not so very well.
 * Richard

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 * Last reply from: [Richard27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richard27/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blur-background/#post-7515907)
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