CSS: lighten an element on hover
Assuming an element is at 100% saturation, opacity, etc... how can I have its background become slightly lighter when it is hovered? The use case is that I'm allowing a user to hover over any element on a page. I don't want to go around determining each colors equivalent at 80% opacity. One method is to change the opacity: 0.4 but I only want the background to change. It's a long time ago but you can do something like this: .element { background-color: red; } .element:hover { box-shadow: inset 0 0 100px 100px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1); } You can change the 100px into a number you want. I took a