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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition

by Ben Frain
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Background gradients

In days gone by, to achieve a background gradient on an element, it was necessary to tile a thin graphical slice of the gradient. As graphics resources go, it's quite an economical trade-off. An image, only a pixel or two wide, isn't going to break the bandwidth bank and on a single site it can be used on multiple elements.

However, if we need to tweak the gradient it still requires round-trips to the graphics editor. Plus, occasionally, content might 'break out' of the gradient background, extending beyond the images' fixed size limitations. This problem is compounded with a responsive design, as sections of a page may increase at different viewports.

With a CSS background-image gradient however, things are far more flexible. ...

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