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Professional CSS3

You're reading from   Professional CSS3 Harness the power of CSS3 to design stunning, modern websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880940
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piotr Sikora Piotr Sikora
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Foundations and Tools 2. Mastering of Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Mastering of Pseudoelements and Pseudoclasses 4. Responsive Websites – Prepare Your Code for Specific Devices 5. Using Background Images in CSS 6. Styling Forms 7. Resolving Classic Problems 8. Usage of Flexbox Transform 9. Calc, Gradients, and Shadows 10. Don't Repeat Yourself – Let's Create a Simple CSS Framework 11. Mailers Fundamentals 12. Scalability and Modularity 13. Code Optimization 14. Final Automatization and Processes Optimization Index

Gradients in CSS


Experienced frontend developers remember the time when gradients were done as background images. Yes! That was the only idea to imitate gradients in browsers. You needed to cut 1px width and the gradient's height (if it was a vertical gradient; in the case of horizontal, it was 1px height and width was designated by the width of the gradient) from the PSD file. Then, you had to add it in CSS and repeat your magic image in the background.

Now, you can do it in CSS! Let's begin with linear gradients.

Linear gradients

Linear gradients can be of two types: from top-to-bottom or from left-to-right. Let's begin with a vertical gradient:

background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #000 0%, #f00 100%)

This code will generate a linear gradient from top-to-bottom. At the top, the color will be black and it will be red at the bottom.

However, it cannot be so easy to be a frontend developer. That's why you need to remember about prefixes:

background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom...
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