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USA.css

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Lots of fun with gradients from Bennett Feely: stars, stripes, banners, bursts… I love being able to use nice patterns with either no image requests at all, or very little SVG.

Reminder: Bennett does all sorts of cool stuff. …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 5, 2020
Direct link to the article How-to guide for creating edge-to-edge color bars that work with a grid
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How-to guide for creating edge-to-edge color bars that work with a grid

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Hard-stop gradients are one of my favorite CSS tricks. Here, Marcel Moreau combines that idea with CSS grid to solve an issue that’s otherwise a pain in the butt. Say you have like a 300px right sidebar on a desktop …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 1, 2020
Direct link to the article When Sass and New CSS Features Collide
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When Sass and New CSS Features Collide

Recently, CSS has added a lot of new cool features such as custom properties and new functions. While these things can make our lives a lot easier, they can also end up interacting with preprocessors, like Sass, in funny …

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Ana Tudor on Jun 29, 2020
Direct link to the article Creative Background Patterns Using Gradients, CSS Shapes, and Even Emojis
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Creative Background Patterns Using Gradients, CSS Shapes, and Even Emojis

You can create stripes in CSS. That’s all I thought about in terms of CSS background patterns for a long time. There’s nothing wrong with stripes; stripes are cool. They can be customized into wide and narrow bands, criss-crossed …

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Preethi on Jun 10, 2020
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Background Patterns, Simplified by 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…

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Ana Tudor on May 28, 2020
Direct link to the article While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better
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While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better

One thing that caught my eye on the list of features for Lea Verou’s conic-gradient() polyfill was the last item:

Supports double position syntax (two positions for the same color stop, as a shortcut for two consecutive color stops with

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Ana Tudor on Feb 14, 2020
Direct link to the article Nested Gradients with background-clip
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Nested Gradients with background-clip

I can’t say I use background-clip all that often. I’d wager it’s hardly ever used in day-to-day CSS work. But I was reminded of it in a post by Stefan Judis, which coincidentally was itself a learning-response post to …

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Chris Coyier on Aug 29, 2019
Direct link to the article Multi-Line Inline Gradient
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Multi-Line Inline Gradient

Came across this thread:

CSS superfriends! Have you seen examples of how to do multi-line padded text like this article on @css (https://t.co/2j8p4jmaT4), but with a gradient that doesn't reset for each line? pic.twitter.com/MVPdAjxt1W

— Dan Mall (@danmall)

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Chris Coyier on Jan 3, 2019
Direct link to the article Gradient Borders in CSS
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Gradient Borders in CSS

Let’s say you need a gradient border around an element. My mind goes like this:

  • There is no simple obvious CSS API for this.
  • I’ll just make a wrapper element with a linear-gradient background, then an inner element will block
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Chris Coyier on Dec 29, 2018
Direct link to the article Scrolling Gradient
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Scrolling Gradient

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If you want a gradient that changes as you scroll down a very long page, you can create a gradient with a bunch of color stops, apply it to the body and it will do just that.

But, what if …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 13, 2018
Direct link to the article Drawing Images with CSS Gradients
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Drawing Images with CSS Gradients

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 …

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Jon Kantner on Jun 25, 2018
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