“Fade” borders in CSS

Question

I\'m using border-left: groove on an element but I want the border to \"fade\" into the background as it\'s about to end at the bottom.

I hope I\'m mak

Answer 1

You could also use box-shadow property with higher value of blur and rgba() color to set opacity level. Sounds like a better choice in your case.

box-shadow: 0 30px 40px rgba(0,0,0,.1);

Answer 2

Add this class css to your style sheet

.border_gradient {
border: 8px solid #000;
-moz-border-bottom-colors:#897048 #917953 #a18a66 #b6a488 #c5b59b #d4c5ae #e2d6c4 #eae1d2;
-moz-border-top-colors:#897048 #917953 #a18a66 #b6a488 #c5b59b #d4c5ae #e2d6c4 #eae1d2;
-moz-border-left-colors:#897048 #917953 #a18a66 #b6a488 #c5b59b #d4c5ae #e2d6c4 #eae1d2;
-moz-border-right-colors:#897048 #917953 #a18a66 #b6a488 #c5b59b #d4c5ae #e2d6c4 #eae1d2;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;
width: 300px;
}

set width to the width of your image. and use this html for image

<div class="border_gradient">
        <img src="image.png" />
</div>

though it may not give the same exact border, it will some gradient looks on the border.

source: CSS3 Borders

Answer 3

How to fade borders with CSS:

<div style="border-style:solid;border-image:linear-gradient(red, transparent) 1;border-bottom:0;">Text</div>

Please excuse the inline styles for the sake of demonstration. The 1 property for the border-image is border-image-slice, and in this case defines the border as a single continuous region.

Source: Gradient Borders

Answer 4

You can specify gradients for colours in certain circumstances in CSS3, and of course borders can be set to a colour, so you should be able to use a gradient as a border colour. This would include the option of specifying a transparent colour, which means you should be able to achieve the effect you're after.

However, I've never seen it used, and I don't know how well supported it is by current browsers. You'll certainly need to accept that at least some of your users won't be able to see it.

A quick google turned up these two pages which should help you on your way:

• CSS3 Gradient Borders
• http://designshack.co.uk/tutorials/introduction-to-css3-part-2-borders

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

I know this is old but this seems to work well for me in 2020...

Using the border-image CSS property I was able to quickly manipulate the borders for this fading purpose.

Note: I don't think border-image works well with border-radius... I seen someone saying that somewhere but for this purpose it works well.

1 Liner:

CSS

 .bbdr_rfade_1      { border: 4px solid; border-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(60,74,83,0.90), rgba(60,74,83,.00)) 1; border-left:none; border-top:none; border-right:none;  }

HTML

<div class = 'bbdr_rfade_1'>Oh I am so going to not up-vote this guy...</div>