A Colorful CSS Gradient Background Generator.
npm install colorful-background-css-generatorA colorful css gradient background generator
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A pure javascript generator to create colorful css backgrounds.
Check this website to see the generator in action and play with the colors settings.
Idea
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The idea is to have multiple layers of linear css gradients at different angles. The gradients go from color to transparent to let the lower layers shine through and generate the wanted effect. There is no limit in the number of layers.
!Visualization of the idea of multiple layers
Usage
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There are two ways to use this generator:
1. Include the generator in the website
2. Use it just as a code generator
There are examples in the examples folder.
###1. Include the generator in the website
Add the generator (it's in the dist folder) to your html file and let it set the background to the element directly.
include_generator_example.html
``html`
This element will have the colorful background.
###2. Use it just as code generator
Another way is to use the generator to generate the css for the background and add this generated css to your style.css.
generate_css_example.html
`html`
Generate the css class
Hints
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* Choose a high saturation between 80 and 100 40
* Choose a lightness between and 60
* The lowest (first added) layer should have the at 100 and posColor > 50 to make the lowest layer more colorful then the other layers
Supported Browsers
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The only magic are css gradients. So it works with
* Firefox 16+
* Safari 5.1+
* Chrome 10+
* Internet Explorer 10+
* Opera 12.1+
* iOS 5.1+
* Android 4+
* Blackberry 10+
* IE Mobile 10+
See http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-gradients for more details on css gradients.
Lessons Learned
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###Transparency in Firefox
This is fixed in Firefox 36+ but an issue in earlier versions.
Firefox renders transparency in gradients different than webkit. The trick is to not use transparent or rgba(0,0,0,0) but the first color with alpha transparency = 0. `css`
/ This fades to gray first before fading to transparent. /
div.gray {
background: linear-gradient(0deg, hsla(0,100%,50%,1) 0%, transparent 100%);
}
/ This fades from color to transparent. /
div.color {
background: linear-gradient(0deg, hsla(0,100%,50%,1) 0%, hsla(0,100%,50%,0) 100%);
}
Open this fiddle with Firefox version 16 till 35 to see the difference.
###Degrees counting in webkit
* Prefixed -webkit-linear-gradient is counting degrees counterclockwise.linear-gradient` is counting degrees clockwise.
0° is at the left side.
* The standard
0° is at the bottom side.
To convert the degrees of the standard linear-gradient to the -webkit-prefix degrees: (360 - standard-degrees) + 90
Open this fiddle in Chrome 26+ (or Safari 6.1+) to see the difference.
License
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The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 webcore-it
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