Cut-out text with CSS

button, css, html, styles

Solution

to follow my comment and links within , using svg , you can get this kind of things : http://codepen.io/gc-nomade/pen/Dqcio/

svg {
  position:absolute;
  background:repeating-linear-gradient(-45deg,
    transparent,
    transparent 5px,
    black 5px,
    black 10px
    );
  width:600px;
  height:300px;
  box-sizing:border-box;
  background-clip: content-box; 
  padding:60px 70px;
}
text {
  font-size:8em;
  fill:url(#textpattern);
  stroke: white;
  border:solid;
  }
div {
  position:relative;
  width:600px;
  margin:auto;
}

and markup :

    <div>
  <svg>
    <defs>
      <pattern id="textpattern" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="600" height="300" >
        <image xlink:href="http://lorempixel.com/600/300/nature/9" width="600" height="300"  x="-70px" y="-60px"/>
      </pattern>
    </defs>
    <text  y="120px" x="140px">test </text>
  </svg>
  <img src="http://lorempixel.com/600/300/nature/9" />
</div>

With CSS , you can even add transparent borders and radius to make it look weirder http://codepen.io/gc-nomade/pen/wsfvg/

Problem

I try to create a hover effect for a button in CSS. Basically text should be 'cut out' of its parent element, making it see-through to the sites background. I'd do the stripes with a gradient, but my problem is to add transparency to the font. I looked at background-clip, but that would do the opposite of what I try to achieve, and would make things way more complicated. Is there an easy way to accomplish this effect? I don't mind using JS, but no jQuery if possible.

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