Articles Tagged conic gradients

For those who have missed the big news, Firefox now supports conic gradients!

Starting with Firefox 75, released on the April 7, we can go to about:config, look for the layout.css.conic-gradient.enabled flag and set its value to true (it’s false by default and all it takes to switch is double-clicking it).

Enabling conic gradients in Firefox 75+

With that enabled, now we can test our CSS including conic gradients in Firefox as well.… Read article “Background Patterns, Simplified by Conic Gradients”

I got the idea for doing something of the kind when I stumbled across this interactive SVG pie chart. While the SVG code is as compact as it gets (a single <circle></circle> element!), using strokes for creating pie chart slices is problematic as we run into rendering issues on Windows for Firefox and Edge. Plus, in 2018, we can accomplish a lot more with a lot less JavaScript!

I managed to get the following result using a single HTML … Read article “Simple Interactive Pie Chart with CSS Variables and Houdini Magic”

I first got the idea to CSS something of the kind when I saw this gradient infinity logo by Infographic Paradise. The gradient doesn't look like in the original illustration, as I chose to generate the rainbow logically instead of using the Dev Tools picker or something like that, but other than that, I think I got pretty close—let's see how I did that!

Let’s say I told you we can get the results below with just one HTML element and five CSS properties for each. No SVG, no images (save for the background on the root that’s there just to make clear that our one HTML element has some transparent parts), no JavaScript. What would you think that involves?… Read article “1 HTML Element + 5 CSS Properties = Magic!”

I recently came across this Pen and my first thought was that it could all be done with just three elements: a wrapper, a range input and an output. On the CSS side, this involves using a conic-gradient() with a stop set to a CSS variable.… Read article “Using Conic Gradients and CSS Variables to Create a Doughnut Chart Output for a Range Input”

When I create filters, shadows, transformations or gradient backgrounds in CSS, it feels amazing. Who would have thought CSS would come this far. No need to use images for any of that stuff. I can almost hear the browser telling me “don’t worry, I do it for you.”

Despite all this evolution, CSS still has limitations. For instance, background gradients can only be created in linear or radial styles, but not a conical shape.… Read article “Conical Gradients in CSS”