Apply opacity to background image but not text

Question

My problem is when I make my picture darker the text in class .text gets darker too, and I don't know how to avoid this.

I know one solution: to make .wrap position:absolute and class .text make not in image but this solution is unsuitable for me (like this).

Any other ideas?

This is the code that I have:

jsfiddle demo

Answer 1

opacity is not an inherit property but affect the content so when you increase the opacity of .image that also affects to .text, you can use pseudo elements and background: rgba() to achieve what you want like this:

Here a working JSFiddle to play with

.wrap {
    width: 100%;
}
.image {
    background-image: url("https://i.stack.imgur.com/gijdH.jpg?s=328&g=1");
    position: relative;
    height: 100vh;
}
.image:before{
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    background: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
}
.text {
    color: #FFF;
    position: relative;
}

<div class="wrap">
    <div class="image">
        <div class="text">
            <p>I LOVE YOU</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>