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saturate()

Summary

Applies a saturation effect to an element’s color, making it appear more or less vivid, for use by the filter property. A decimal value of 1 or percentage of 100% keeps the image as is, while increasing the amount produces more dramatically stratified hues.

This CSS property value is reflected in the following image:

filter: saturate(1000%);
filter: saturate(10); /* same */

f09-tiffany.jpgf10-tiffanysaturate.jpg

Examples

The following example shows the difference between two images, where one has a saturation of 1000%:

filter saturate.png

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Filter example</title>
    <style>
      .foo {
        float: left;
      }

      .bar {
        -webkit-filter: saturate(1000%);
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <img src="/logo/wplogo_transparent_xlg.png" class="foo" />
    <img src="/logo/wplogo_transparent_xlg.png" class="foo bar" />
  </body>
</html>

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Notes

The CSS filter corresponds to this SVG filter definition, based on a variable amount passed to the function:

<filter id="saturate">
  <feColorMatrix type="saturate" values="(1 - [amount])"/>
</filter>

Related specifications

Filter Effects 1.0
Editor’s Draft
Filter Effects 1.0
Working Draft

See also

Related articles

Filters

External resources