Is it possible to graduate the opacity of an HTML element?

Question

I want a

element (the whole element, contents and everything) to fade out towards the bottom. It\'s to truncate a news post that has to fit into a v

Answer 1

Is this what you are looking for?

Take a look at my jsfiddle.

I'm not sure what you want because your description is not satisfactory. Can you make a jsfiddle of what the problem is?