What I mean by “CSS images” is images that are created using only HTML elements and CSS. They look as if they were SVGs drawn in Adobe Illustrator but they were made right in the browser. Some techniques I’ve seen used are tinkering with border radii, box shadows, and sometimes clip-path. You can find a l...
I first got the idea to CSS something of the kind when I saw this gradient infinity logo by Infographic Paradise: The original gradient infinity. After four hours and some twenty minutes, of which over four hours were spent on tweaking positioning, edges and highlights… I finally had the result below: My version...
Back in 2012, Internet Explorer 10 came out and, among other things, it finally supported CSS gradients and, in addition to that, the ability to animate them with just CSS! No other browser supported this at the time, but I was hopeful for the future. Sadly, six years have passed and nothing has changed in this departm...
Radial gradients are pretty dang cool. It’s amazing we can paint the background of an element with them so easily. Easily is a relative term though. It’s certainly easier than needing to create a graphic in third-party software to use as the background, and the syntax is highly learnable. But it’s als...
Keith J. Grant:In CSS, you can’t transition a background gradient. It jumps from one gradient to the other immediately, with no smooth transition between the two.He documents a clever tactic of positioning a pseudo element covering the element with a different background and transitioning the opacity of that ...
Linear gradients are easy to create in CSS and are extremely useful. As we’ll go through in this article, we can make them visually much smoother by creating them with non-linear gradients. Well, non-linear in the easing sense, anyway!Here’s an example that shows how harsh a standard linear-gradient() ca...
Say you have a gradient in CSS that goes from red to transparent. Easy, right? Like this: .element { background: linear-gradient( to bottom, red, transparent ); } There is a pretty big gotcha here, though.In Chrome (also Android), Firefox, and Edge, you’d be all good.But in Safari (also iOS),...
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