What is a good technique for poll result bars?

Question

I am creating some polling software and am currently researching techniques for doing poll result graph bars. Nothing complicated, just some simple results bars.

I was w

Answer 1

Yes, that's a good way to do it.

Here's the same idea with more refinement:

Live Demo

HTML:

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CSS:

.pollBars {
    width: 300px;
    background: #ccc
}
.pollBars span {
    display: block;

    padding: 3px;
    margin: 7px 0;

    font: bold 14px/1 sans-serif;

    -moz-border-radius: 4px;
    border-radius: 4px;

    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #444;
}

.t1 {
    color: #fff;

    border: 1px solid red;

    background: #f85032; /* old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f85032 0%, #f16f5c 50%, #f6290c 51%, #f02f17 71%, #e73827 100%); /* firefox */

    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#f85032), color-stop(50%,#f16f5c), color-stop(51%,#f6290c), color-stop(71%,#f02f17), color-stop(100%,#e73827)); /* webkit */

    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#f85032', endColorstr='#e73827',GradientType=0 ); /* ie */
}

.t2 {
    color: #fff;

    border: 1px solid blue;

    background: #6db3f2; /* old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #6db3f2 0%, #54a3ee 50%, #3690f0 51%, #1e69de 100%); /* firefox */

    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#6db3f2), color-stop(50%,#54a3ee), color-stop(51%,#3690f0), color-stop(100%,#1e69de)); /* webkit */

    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#6db3f2', endColorstr='#1e69de',GradientType=0 ); /* ie */
}