title: How do I apply a CSS filter to ONLY the background image
body: <p>I have a div tag with a background image that has some text text inside, I want to apply a filter to the background image without disrupting the texton the inside of the div layer. Is this possible? <em>(This is my first post I hope I didn't layout anything incorrectly!)</em></p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.img_container{
      box-sizing: border-box;
      background-image: url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Mallard2.jpg");
      background-size: contain;
      width: 500px; 
      height: 380px; 
      filter: blur(2px);
      color: #333;
      text-align: center;
      padding-top: 20%;
      font-size: 20px;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>    &lt;div class="img_container"&gt;
          &lt;div class="img_text"&gt; I want to be clear! &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
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