Mix-blend-mode doesn't work if I use "transform" on the parent div

Question

I want the text on the button to be 'transparent', so you can see the color below.

It's been almost 2 hours and I was going CRAZY trying to understand why it doesn't work, but I noticed that if I remove transform: translate(-50%, -50%); from its parent div it works. Why?

What am I doing wrong?

let button = document.querySelector('.button')
let body = document.querySelector('.body')

button.addEventListener('click', ()=> {
  let colorOne = parseInt(Math.random() * 255)
  let colorTwo = parseInt(Math.random() * 255)
  let colorThree = parseInt(Math.random() * 255)

  body.style.background = 'rgb(' + colorOne + ', ' + colorTwo + ', ' + colorThree
  + ')'

  document.querySelector('.color').innerText = 'rgb (' + colorOne + ', ' + colorTwo + ', ' + colorThree
+ ')'})

.button {
  font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
  border-radius: .5em;
  padding: .3em .7em;
  font-size: 1.1em;
  position: relative;
  background: white;
  mix-blend-mode: screen;
}

.color {
  font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
  color: white;
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px black;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
}

.container {
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50vh;
  left: 50vw;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

<body class="body">
  
  <div class="container">
    <h3 class="button">Generate Colour</h3>
    <p class="color"></p>
  </div>
  
  <script src="main.js"></script>
</body>

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '20 at 13:58

It's a bit tricky to understand because you are facing two complex issues but change your code like below and it will work fine:

let button = document.querySelector('.button')
let body = document.querySelector('.body')

button.addEventListener('click', ()=> {
  let colorOne = parseInt(Math.random() * 255)
  let colorTwo = parseInt(Math.random() * 255)
  let colorThree = parseInt(Math.random() * 255)

  body.style.background = 'rgb(' + colorOne + ', ' + colorTwo + ', ' + colorThree
  + ')'

  document.querySelector('.color').innerText = 'rgb (' + colorOne + ', ' + colorTwo + ', ' + colorThree
+ ')'})

.button {
  font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
  border-radius: .5em;
  padding: .3em .7em;
  font-size: 1.1em;
  position: relative;
  background: white;
}

.color {
  font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
  color: white;
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px black;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
}

.container {
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50vh;
  left: 50vw;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  mix-blend-mode: screen; /* the bleding on the parent element */
}

.body {
  min-height:100vh; /* full height since there is no in-flow content */
  margin:0;
  position:relative; /* the container need to be relative to body */
}

html {
  background:#fff; /* to stop background propagation from body to html */
}

<body class="body">
  
  <div class="container">
    <h3 class="button">Generate Colour</h3>
    <p class="color"></p>
  </div>
  
  <script src="main.js"></script>
</body>

oh wow! I would've never thought of that! :)) thank you very much! — Mailer, Oct 26 '20 at 14:37
Thank you both!! After several similar stack overflows, this was the solution that solved it for me! — Klnh13, Mar 23 '23 at 16:00

Mix-blend-mode doesn't work if I use "transform" on the parent div

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