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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Gradients: Color Stops

Aaron Michael Ho
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Color stops

Is there a maximum amount of color stops? Are we limited to three colors? Or could we "rainbow" the gradient. Also, is there a way to make a compound gradient?

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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I don't think there's any specific limit on color stops, so you might make a rainbow gradient like this:

.rainbow {
    background: linear-gradient(to right,
        rgb(255,   0,   0) 0%,
        rgb(255, 255,   0) 15%,
        rgb(  0, 255,   0) 30%,
        rgb(  0, 255, 255) 50%,
        rgb(  0,   0, 255) 65%,
        rgb(255,   0, 255) 80%,
        rgb(255  , 0,   0) 100%);
)

Clearly, there's also no limit on 3 colors. And I'm not quite sure what you mean by a "compound" gradient. Would that rainbow be an example?

Aaron Michael Ho
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Aaron Michael Ho
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Thanks Steven! No limit on three colors...totally answered my question!

As to the other one re: the "compound" gradient...I suppose it would stop being a gradient at that point...but what I meant was a background that was a radial gradient that had areas of linear worked in. I imagine there's a way to do that, AND I also imagine it would take much more coding.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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More coding for sure, and it sounds like it might be a good application for SVG.