Three ways to implement text color gradient in CSS

In the process of web front-end development, UI designers often design some designs with gradient text. In the past, we could only use png pictures to replace text. Today, we can use pure CSS to achieve gradient text. Here are 3 implementation methods for your reference!

Basic style:

.gradient-text{text-align: left;text-indent:30px;line-height: 50px;font-size:40px;font-weight: bolder; position: relative; }

The first method uses background-cli and text-fill-color:

.gradient-text-one{  
    background-image:-webkit-linear-gradient(bottom,red,#fd8403,yellow); 
    -webkit-background-clip:text; 
    -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent; 
}

illustrate:

background: -webkit-linear-gradient(…) provides a gradient background for text elements.

webkit-text-fill-color: transparent Fill the text with a transparent color.

webkit-background-clip: text Clip the background with the text, filling the text with the gradient background as color.

The second method uses mask-image:

.gradient-text-two{
   color:red;
}
.gradient-text-two[data-content]::after{
    content:attr(data-content);
    display: block;
    position:absolute;
    color:yellow;
    left:0;
    top:0;
    z-index:2;
    -webkit-mask-image:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 bottom, from(yellow), to(rgba(0, 0, 255, 0)));
}

illustrate:

Like background-image, mask-image can be a picture path or a gradient color.

The third method uses linearGradient and fill:

.gradient-text-three{
    fill:url(#SVGID_1_);
    font-size:40px;
    font-weight: bold;
}

<svg viewBoxs="0 0 500 300" class="svgBox">
    <defs>
        <linearGradient id="SVGID_1_" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="0" y1="10" x2="0" y2="50">
            <stop offset="0" style="stop-color:yellow"/>
            <stop offset="0.5" style="stop-color:#fd8403"/>
            <stop offset="1" style="stop-color:red"/>
        </linearGradient>
    </defs>
    <text text-anchor="middle" class="gradient-text-three" x="110px" y="30%">Flower Years</text>
</svg>

illustrate:

In SVG, there are two main types of gradients:

Linear Gradient

radialGradient

Gradients in SVG can be used not only to fill graphic elements, but also to fill text elements.

DOM example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0">
    <title>CSS3 gradient font</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.bootcss.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <script src="https://cdn.bootcss.com/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.bootcss.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
    <style type="text/css">
        *{margin:0;padding:0;}
        body,html{width:100%;height:100%;}
        .wrapper{width:80%;margin:0 auto;margin-top:30px;}
        .gradient-text{text-align: left;text-indent:30px;line-height: 50px;font-size:40px;font-weight: bolder; position: relative; }
        .gradient-text-one{  
            background-image:-webkit-linear-gradient(bottom,red,#fd8403,yellow); 
            -webkit-background-clip:text; 
            -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent; 
        }
        .gradient-text-two{
            color:red;
        }
        .gradient-text-two[data-content]::after{
            content:attr(data-content);
            display: block;
            position:absolute;
            color:yellow;
            left:0;
            top:0;
            z-index:2;
            -webkit-mask-image:-webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 bottom, from(yellow), to(rgba(0, 0, 255, 0)));
        }
        .gradient-text-three{
            fill:url(#SVGID_1_);
            font-size:40px;
            font-weight: bold;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <section class="wrapper">
        <div class="panel panel-info">
            <div class="panel-heading">
                <h3 class="panel-title">Method 1. background-clip + text-fill-color</h3>
            </div>
            <div class="panel-body">
                <h3 class="gradient-text gradient-text-one">In the Mood for Love</h3>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="panel panel-warning">
            <div class="panel-heading">
                <h3 class="panel-title">Method 2. Mask-image</h3>
            </div>
            <div class="panel-body">
                <h3 class="gradient-text gradient-text-two" data-content="The Year of Young Girls">The Year of Young Girls</h3>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="panel panel-danger">
            
            <div class="panel-heading">
                <h3 class="panel-title">Method 3. svg linearGradient</h3>
            </div>
 
            <div class="panel-body">
                <svg viewBoxs="0 0 500 300" class="svgBox">
                    <defs>
                        <linearGradient id="SVGID_1_" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="0" y1="10" x2="0" y2="50">
                            <stop offset="0" style="stop-color:yellow"/>
                            <stop offset="0.5" style="stop-color:#fd8403"/>
                            <stop offset="1" style="stop-color:red"/>
                        </linearGradient>
                    </defs>
                    <text text-anchor="middle" class="gradient-text-three" x="110px" y="30%">Flower Years</text>
                </svg>
            </div>
 
        </div>
    </section>
</body>
</html>

Effect:

Summarize

The above are three methods of implementing text color gradient in CSS that I introduced to you. I hope it will be helpful to you. If you have any questions, please leave me a message and I will reply to you in time. I would also like to thank everyone for their support of the 123WORDPRESS.COM website!

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