带边框的透明文本 html/css

Question

So I have been searching, and maybe I am not searching correctly or the answers aren't making sense to me. I want to have completely transparent text with a visible border around it.

So far, this is what I have:

{
    font-family: Arial Black,Arial Bold,Gadget,sans-serif;
    color: white;
    opacity: 0.4;
    font-size: 80px;
    margin-left: 25px;
    text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}

The problem with this is lowering the opacity to allow the background through is also drastically reducing the border making the text harder to read. I know that doing this will make it difficult anyway, but the fading border is not helping. Any help on this is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Use rgba() value for the color property.

 div { font-family: Arial Black, Arial Bold, Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4); font-size: 80px; margin-left: 25px; text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black; }

 <div>Some text</div>

---

Or you could use a :pseudo-element.

 div { position: relative; font-family: Arial Black, Arial Bold, Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 80px; margin-left: 25px; text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black; } div:after { position: absolute; top: 0; left:0; content: 'Some text'; width: 100%; height: 100%; font-family: Arial Black, Arial Bold, Gadget, sans-serif; color: white; opacity: 0.4; font-size: 80px; z-index: 1; pointer-events: none; }

 <div>Some text</div>

Or you could use svg .

 body, html { height: 100%; margin: 0; background: url(http://lorempixel.com/500/200/) no-repeat; }

 <svg width="400" height="100"> <text fill="white" fill-opacity="0.4" font-size="80" x="200" y="70" text-anchor="middle" stroke="black">Some Text</text> </svg>