Making div element background transparent to background image CSS

Question

I would like to make a parallax effect within my website, however I am unable to set the background of a DIV element to be transparent, despite using background-color: transparent.

Essentially, I would like to solely display the text within a DIV, and remove the background color.

By using W3Schools..

    body, html {
        height: 100%;
    }
    
    .parallax {
        /* The image used */
        background-image: url('http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/originals/2013/Photoshop_Image_of_the_horse_053857_.jpg');
    
        /* Full height */
        height: 100%; 
    
        /* Create the parallax scrolling effect */
        background-attachment: fixed;
        background-position: center;
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-size: cover;
    }
    
    .parallax2 {
        /* The image used */
        background-image: url('http://www.qygjxz.com/data/out/114/4676052-image.png');
    
        /* Full height */
        height: 100%; 
    
        /* Create the parallax scrolling effect */
        background-attachment: fixed;
        background-position: center;
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-size: cover;
    }
    
    /* Turn off parallax scrolling for tablets and phones. Increase the pixels if needed */
    @media only screen and (max-device-width: 1024px) {
        .parallax {
            background-attachment: scroll;
        }
    }>

    
    <div class="parallax"></div>
    
    <div style="height:100px;background-color:transparent;font-size:36px">
    Some text goes here, need to try to make the background of this transparent? Any ideas?
    </div>
    
    <div class="parallax2"></div>

Thank you

Answer 1

If you don't assign a background-color to your div, it would be transparent automatically. That's the default. I made a jsfiddle and tested it to make sure.

<div style="height:100px;font-size:36px; border:1px solid red;">
    Some text goes here, need to try to make the background of this transparent? Any ideas?
    </div>

If for any reason it didn't work, I would make a 2*2 transparent PNG in Photoshop and assign in as background-color, repeated in x and y directions both.

It's not a standard solution but will work surely. :D

Answer 2

I had a similar problem a few days ago. You can easily write:

background: none;

or

background: transparent;

and then the element become transparent and the element under it will be visible. But the text is still there.