an example that shows how to draw rainbow text with CSS gradients
inspired by this handy stackoverflow answer
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CSS gradient rainbow text
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| height: 76 | |
| license: Apache-2.0 |
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <style> | |
| .rainbow { | |
| background-image: gradient(linear, left top, right top, | |
| color-stop(0, red), | |
| color-stop(0.15, orange), | |
| color-stop(0.3, yellow), | |
| color-stop(0.45, green), | |
| color-stop(0.65, blue), | |
| color-stop(0.8, indigo), | |
| color-stop(1, violet) | |
| ); | |
| color:transparent; | |
| background-clip: text; | |
| /* for webkit browsers Chrome and Safari */ | |
| background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, | |
| color-stop(0, red), | |
| color-stop(0.15, orange), | |
| color-stop(0.3, yellow), | |
| color-stop(0.45, green), | |
| color-stop(0.65, blue), | |
| color-stop(0.8, indigo), | |
| color-stop(1, violet) | |
| ); | |
| -webkit-background-clip: text; | |
| } | |
| .text { | |
| font-size: 57px; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <script> | |
| function rainbow(string) { | |
| const span = document.createElement('span') | |
| span.classList.add('rainbow', 'text') | |
| span.innerHTML = string | |
| return span | |
| } | |
| document | |
| .getElementsByTagName('body')[0] | |
| .appendChild(rainbow('rainbow text created with a CSS gradient')) | |
| </script> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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