I have just implemented the transparent gradient border in my website thanks to you! Awesome! I actually use it in an :after element behind the semi-transparent background for my articles with the z-index set to -1. 😃
Damn .. been searching all over the place for gradient borders.. I just used to add multiple backgrounds with proper positioning and size to emulate gradient borders.. or just layer ::before to get gradient border.. This was too informative Love you bro
Perfect, I am coding my small project now, as I am not a designer i try to make things look simple, but i always want to add some artistic touch to them. The transparent border is something i need)
for gradient border i always use background: linear-gradient and changing border to transparent. background: linear-gradient(#fff 0 0) padding-box, linear-gradient(to right, #9c20aa, #fb3570) border-box; border: 10px solid transparent; first linear-gradient is basically your background color to fill only the padding box while sitting on a second linear gradient which is the gradient that fills to the whole border area.
@@Way_Of_The_Light I only know how to do it with solid colors with box-shadow inset... Or a negative outline-offset.. creating a pseudo element sortof works too(by making width and height smaller than the parent)...
Last time I use border-image when it was as an exercise in a paper tutorial book and it was almost useless in real world. But now, with a gradient, that might be usable! Thanks!!
that was some pretty slick border action. I need to inject this knowledge into the designers at work so they only design based off the things I already know ha
border-image is like that one candy on the bottom of the package - you don't really expect so much from it, its name is kind of boring and not really promising, but when you unwrap it, you realize - it is the most delicious candy of all times
I've been stuck trying to figure out an animated border-gradient with a Border radius while keeping a transparent background. I've seen ur animated border gradient video but with that method it looked like you need a 'background' for the card at the front to hide the gradient thats behind it. Is there a way to make an animated border with round corners? The SVG videos gave me the impression the gradient cannot be done in the CSS only in HTML, am I understanding that right?
Thanks for the video. Good stuff. Would this be a good use case for throwing a loading "spinner" on a button? I played around a bit and think the Gradient Example 2 approach with an animation altering the deg would make it look like a loading bar and perfect for a button. Throw the loading class on the button when it is clicked, and remove that class when the process is finished.
"The border property you never knew you needed" My negative side: "May be because we actually didn't need it?" My other side: "Just watch and shut up. You might actually happily use that one day".
Would this CSS work when creating an image border? I've tried it and it does NOT seem to work for an image. For some reason it does not bring in the image even though I tested the URL in a browser and that does open the image.
@@KevinPowell Thank you for this video and for your response. Also, I was the guy who emailed you last week about this very topic. This channel is awesome!
right now if you want a round corner it would have to be included as part of the image. I have a github issue open with the CSSWG on making gradient border-image with work with border-radius.
I've needed something akin to the radial gradient tip at the end, where you want something similar to 'mounting corners' in a photo album. Adjusting the stops to give a hard start to the transparency would be perfect!
It seems like its not possible for border-image to work if you have border-radius on your telement. Or well, the border-image work but it does not follow the shape of the element...
This is brilliant, and very timely for a project I'm working on right now. However I'm struggling a little - I'm using a png with a design on a white background for border image, but my border seems to get a small gradient. I can't work out why or how to remove it. Any advice please?
The image source could have a transparent gap on the outside for the spacing you want there, and then the image/pattern is inset a little bit, then it's just playing with the slicing
Would it not be better to pre-slice the corner in Photoshop, and use that as the border-image instead of the full thing? It seems to just mirror the corner over and over to create the border so why not save on resources?
Like captuhu said, as long as the image isn't some giant, bloated image that you're using for no reason, I don't really see the need to pre-slice it. You'll hopefully have a pretty optimized image to start with. I'd start with general image optimization, and if I was really needing to cut down a few more kb, then sure.
Here's a fun "highlight the corners" snip-it. Setup your own color and the transparent percents can tune how quick it fades out on each corner. The "to" keeps it pointed at the other corner if your container changes size. border: 0.3rem solid; border-image-source: linear-gradient( to bottom right, $color, transparent 30%, transparent 80%, darken($color, 10%) ); border-image-slice: 1;
This is borderline fantastic
🥁
This comment should be pinned for posterity :P
🤣💪🏾🔥😎
No, this is borderline godtier. Saying borderline fantastic is the same as saying barely fantastic
@@OLDACCOUNT_notfireman okay Shakespeare
5:38 "This isn't what you'd think it is" - that's a great description of CSS properties in general!
I have just implemented the transparent gradient border in my website thanks to you! Awesome! I actually use it in an :after element behind the semi-transparent background for my articles with the z-index set to -1. 😃
This is so cool. I want to see more of these little design hacks for common designs patterns.
I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working, but of course coming to a Kevin Powell video you learn exactly what you need
Damn .. been searching all over the place for gradient borders.. I just used to add multiple backgrounds with proper positioning and size to emulate gradient borders.. or just layer ::before to get gradient border..
This was too informative
Love you bro
Nice content Kevin
I also used gradient borders in some of my recent projects
One drawback is that it doesn't work with border radius
KP CSS Tutorials as it's finest. ☝️🙌
Perfect, I am coding my small project now, as I am not a designer i try to make things look simple, but i always want to add some artistic touch to them. The transparent border is something i need)
for gradient border i always use background: linear-gradient and changing border to transparent.
background:
linear-gradient(#fff 0 0) padding-box,
linear-gradient(to right, #9c20aa, #fb3570) border-box;
border: 10px solid transparent;
first linear-gradient is basically your background color to fill only the padding box while sitting on a second linear gradient which is the gradient that fills to the whole border area.
Hey quick question, How do you make the border show up inside the box? Like an inner frame of a Tarot Card? 🙏
@@Way_Of_The_Light I only know how to do it with solid colors with box-shadow inset... Or a negative outline-offset.. creating a pseudo element sortof works too(by making width and height smaller than the parent)...
@@Way_Of_The_Light You can have two borders actually. You can use outline as a second border around it.
I see, Thanks for the answers guys 🙏
css used to stress me out, this channel makes it much less scary and confusing
Last time I use border-image when it was as an exercise in a paper tutorial book and it was almost useless in real world. But now, with a gradient, that might be usable! Thanks!!
that was some pretty slick border action. I need to inject this knowledge into the designers at work so they only design based off the things I already know ha
Thanks for your explanation, very clear and helpful, fantastic!
4:24 - "I mucked up my bottom a little bit"
I do that from time to time - it's fine
Man you just saved my life with this tutorial
Thanks a lot
Amazing!!
You make me fall in love with css!
Holy crap this is mindblowing. Thank you! I'm going to mess around with this on my current project.
The first 30 seconds are enough to make me feel oooooooooooooold
I use these to put 'Final Fantasy 7'-style borders around UI elements on my Twitch streams. They're great!
this was great. was able to use it immediately at work. Thanks
I like that that CSS property now exists.
("that that" isn't a typo, it is weird grammar in English)
Get well soon Kevin!
Great content as always!
Omigosh! I didn't know this was doable! This video would have helped when I needed to do a gradient border a while back. Dang. Haha.
This is amazing! Thanks @Kevin
enjoyed the examples at the end.. just wow
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO
Welcome to the styling side!!
Really fantastic thing from border image, thanks for sharing my friend
i almost always learn something new, thanks!
I really enjoy your tutorials, voice and positive energy, God bless you brother🙏💙
You just saved me some serious design headache (Y)
border-image is like that one candy on the bottom of the package - you don't really expect so much from it, its name is kind of boring and not really promising, but when you unwrap it, you realize - it is the most delicious candy of all times
🤩🤩🤩🤩 ty for making css awesome
Your video contents are top notch Sir . Thanks.
Excellent video, never used borders like that and I think I will start using it from now on ^_^
Remember when border-radius wasn't a thing and everything had a gif border-image? Pepperidge farm remembers.
lol saved me hours with that mozilla border image generator
Well, that's new
Thank you Kevin
This is really cool. Thank you sir!
These videos should be paid
amazing video, thank you!
Thanks for that, I didn't known about border-image
I think this is the only video about this subject in the internet
great video! Thanks kevin!
great explanation Kevin ♥
so could you provide us a tutorial about : circular progress border using CSS
We could do something fun with that!
@@KevinPowell thanks a lot for that
Thanks Kevin
I've been stuck trying to figure out an animated border-gradient with a Border radius while keeping a transparent background. I've seen ur animated border gradient video but with that method it looked like you need a 'background' for the card at the front to hide the gradient thats behind it.
Is there a way to make an animated border with round corners? The SVG videos gave me the impression the gradient cannot be done in the CSS only in HTML, am I understanding that right?
Thanks for the video. Good stuff. Would this be a good use case for throwing a loading "spinner" on a button? I played around a bit and think the Gradient Example 2 approach with an animation altering the deg would make it look like a loading bar and perfect for a button. Throw the loading class on the button when it is clicked, and remove that class when the process is finished.
yeah that's what i was thinking too, especially with example three with a rotate animation
Thanks! Very useful, as usual.
"The border property you never knew you needed"
My negative side: "May be because we actually didn't need it?"
My other side: "Just watch and shut up. You might actually happily use that one day".
Very useful video, thanks
wow >> you are amazing
Very beautiful.
How about the gradient border with radius? And transparent background also.
Mind blowing and really beautiful:)
I wonder if you design straight in css and hrml or still use figma?
Great video 🙏🏾🖤
If am using border gradient doesn't support border radius. Any solution for this i dont want background-image gradient with border radius.
Would this CSS work when creating an image border?
I've tried it and it does NOT seem to work for an image. For some reason it does not bring in the image even though I tested the URL in a browser and that does open the image.
How does this interact with border-radius, and how many of these properties are animatable?
Still looking forward to the day when border-image becomes compatible with border radius ;-;
its work thx brother 🙏
Awesome video!!!
genius! thx a lot
Could you use container queries to make slice more dynamic?
Hi Kevin, great video. I have a question, is it possible to do the last border and both sides?
Nice video will help me in my next Website 👍
Hello! thanks for the video, very help full! which is the right size for an image not to pixel when using this property?
Thanks 👍
how to give border radius while using the linear gradient one?
How can I do the property of border-radius? when I give the border radius it effects the background color not linear-gradient border
No border radius with the images sadly, you'd have to set the corners of the image up to be rounded
@@KevinPowell but I am using linear gradient color for border, not image
Watching you makes me want to ditch tailwind and just use css
That just made my day 😅
This was great! I am curious however on how you'd mix this with adding a border radius as well. It seems that the two "fight" one another.
Yeah it's one or the other with border-image :)
@@KevinPowell Thank you for this video and for your response. Also, I was the guy who emailed you last week about this very topic. This channel is awesome!
right now if you want a round corner it would have to be included as part of the image. I have a github issue open with the CSSWG on making gradient border-image with work with border-radius.
If you used "fill", would there be a lime green semicircle in the top left?
Such a cool things~ thx
Can you please explain how it works for circular divs or images.
Cool !! 💯💯💯
Nice!!! Thx!
how to make curve border top left corner in example 3, because border radius isn't working and i don't know why
Can't use this and border radius, it's one or the other sadly... So you need to have the corners round in the image itself
@@KevinPowell ok thanks amazing channel btw :)
I've needed something akin to the radial gradient tip at the end, where you want something similar to 'mounting corners' in a photo album. Adjusting the stops to give a hard start to the transparency would be perfect!
It seems like its not possible for border-image to work if you have border-radius on your telement. Or well, the border-image work but it does not follow the shape of the element...
Yeah it's one or the other, but you're image can have round corners if your already going down that route
Using border-image was pretty common before CSS3
This is brilliant, and very timely for a project I'm working on right now. However I'm struggling a little - I'm using a png with a design on a white background for border image, but my border seems to get a small gradient. I can't work out why or how to remove it. Any advice please?
Don't worry. I fixed it. Only took 2 hours! The gradient was a box shadow from the div above. Obvs really.
✨ magic ✨
how can i make it circle, i mean does border-radius work on that ????
But how do you do it on rounded corners?
Hey quick question, How do you make the border show up inside the box? Like an inner frame of a Tarot Card? 🙏
The image source could have a transparent gap on the outside for the spacing you want there, and then the image/pattern is inset a little bit, then it's just playing with the slicing
@@KevinPowell I see, thank you so much for replying 🙏
Good stuff
I love it
Would it not be better to pre-slice the corner in Photoshop, and use that as the border-image instead of the full thing? It seems to just mirror the corner over and over to create the border so why not save on resources?
the browser does the slicing for you. These border-image-sources don't tend to be so large that the repetition really causes an issue.
Like captuhu said, as long as the image isn't some giant, bloated image that you're using for no reason, I don't really see the need to pre-slice it. You'll hopefully have a pretty optimized image to start with. I'd start with general image optimization, and if I was really needing to cut down a few more kb, then sure.
also SVG is your best friend for these images. Super small file size and they scale well so you don't need to tweak them for 2x , 3x
How do we use border-radius with a gradient border? Anyone got any idea or is it simply not possible (yet)?
Here's a fun "highlight the corners" snip-it. Setup your own color and the transparent percents can tune how quick it fades out on each corner. The "to" keeps it pointed at the other corner if your container changes size.
border: 0.3rem solid;
border-image-source: linear-gradient(
to bottom right,
$color,
transparent 30%,
transparent 80%,
darken($color, 10%)
);
border-image-slice: 1;
What about border-radius with this properties?
why border radius doesn't apply to this?
Who does your back-end?
how to do it for rounded borders
Also known as a 9 slice on video games 🔥
Why this is not working correctly in safari browser?
dang, u r wizard