Choice is important with stuff like highlighting

I’m making some demos for an article and I wanted one of those smooth gradients. It’s still not quite possible with standard CSS, so I used this trusty resource.

I generated my gradient (truly who here hand-writes them) and wanted to grab the background property only.

🚨 Strobe warning

I can’t select text as it’s constantly trying to select everything. It results in this horrible strobing.

It’s a bit annoying this because I’ve already got some CSS. I just wanted the background. It’s why on Piccalilli we do code samples like this.

I have lots of choice in selecting text exactly how I want

It’s a nice progressive enhancement and we’re not getting in the way of what the user actually wants to do. You wanna copy a bit of the code? You’ve got it. You want the whole thing? You’ve also got it, here’s a button, but hey, you can also select it all if you want. Whatever works for you.

Whatever works for you.

👋 Hello, I’m Andy and this is my little home on the web.

I’m the founder of Set Studio, a creative agency that specialises in building stunning websites that work for everyone and Piccalilli, a publication that will level you up as a front-end developer.

I’ve also got a CSS course called Complete CSS to help you get to a level in development that you never thought would be possible.

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