{"id":2084,"date":"2024-05-07T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2024-05-09T07:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:10:05","slug":"quick-trick-using-border-image-to-apply-and-overlay-gradient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/quick-trick-using-border-image-to-apply-and-overlay-gradient\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Trick: Using border-image to Apply and Overlay Gradient."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was watching Kevin Powell and Adam Argyle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=opHu7HvFM60\">rapidfire through 23 CSS features<\/a>. They are all cool tricks, but one stood out to me. Even as an extreme CSS connoisseur I hadn&#8217;t seen it before. It&#8217;s a juicy one-liner (credit <a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/t_afif\">Temani Afif<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"CSS\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"css\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-css\"><span class=\"hljs-selector-class\">.overlay<\/span> {\n  <span class=\"hljs-attribute\">border-image<\/span>: fill <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">linear-gradient<\/span>(#<span class=\"hljs-number\">0003<\/span>, #<span class=\"hljs-number\">000<\/span>);\n}<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">CSS<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">css<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/t_afif\/pen\/vYbdVjb?editors=1100\">This fills the entire element with a gradient overlay<\/a> <em>on top<\/em> of any background. 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