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Pierce McGeough
Pierce McGeough

Reputation: 3086

Is it possible to use a gradient over a css background image?

I am trying to get a div to have a blue background image which is 500px wide. I then am trying to get the gradient to be white at the very left of the div and as it goes right the background image is slowly visible

Upvotes: 0

Views: 421

Answers (2)

erwstout
erwstout

Reputation: 1307

I actually just posted something similar on another question, but it applies in this case as well. Here it is in action:

http://sassmeister.com/gist/3528cb23d3e831231949

And the CSS to achieve this effect:

.hero {
 width: 100%;
 height: 500px;
 background: url("http://placesheen.com/1200/500") center center no-repeat;
 background-size: cover;
 }
.hero:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
height: 508px;
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), white);
}

Of course be sure to add the correct vendor-prefixes so that it is cross-browser compatible. And if you wanted to change gradient directions you would change the gradient values.

The html:

<div class="hero">
    You could put content here if you want
</div>

More on gradients: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_gradients.asp

Upvotes: 0

Bala Subramanyam
Bala Subramanyam

Reputation: 183

This css code will be useful to make it gradient 

.gradient {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;

    background: #999; /* for non-css3 browsers */

    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#cccccc', endColorstr='#000000'); /* for IE */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#ccc), to(#000)); /* for webkit browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #ccc,  #000); /* for firefox 3.6+ */ 
}

Use the above css in html using class

<div class="gradient">
    gradient box
</div>

Upvotes: 1

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