Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients

Remember the first time you changed the colors of a web page?
Instead of the default black text on a white background with blue links, all of a sudden you could use any combination of colors you desired-perhaps light blue text on a black background with lime green hyperlinks.
From there, it was just a short hop to colored text and, eventually, even to multiple colors for the text in a page. Once you could add background images, too, just about anything became possible, or so it seemed.
This book teaches you how to use CSS to color and backgrounds even further, letting you apply many different colors and backgrounds to a single page or element, and even to apply multiple backgrounds to the same element.

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One advantage of using CSS3 is that you can apply colors and backgrounds to any element in a web document, create your own gradients, and even apply multiple backgrounds to the same element. This practical guide shows you many ways to use colors, backgrounds, and gradients to achieve some pretty awesome effects.
Short and sweet, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide.
Why wait? Learn how to bring life to your web pages now.

• Define foreground colors for a border or element with the color property
• Combine foreground and background colors to create interesting effects
• Position and repeat one or more images in an element’s background
• Fix an image to a screen’s viewing area, rather than to the element that contains it
• Use color stops to define vertical, horizontal, and diagonal linear gradients
• Create spotlight effects, circular shadows, and other effects with radial gradients