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CSS Enhancing Design with CSS Finishing Touches CSS Gradients

Posted by Jonah Tibbetts
Jonah Tibbetts
1,716 Points

what is stop

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main-header{
  background-image: linear-gradient(stealblue 0%, darkslateblue);
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lake Tahoe</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  </head>
  <body> 
    <header id="top" class="main-header">
      <span class="title">Journey Through the Sierra Nevada Mountains</span>
      <h1 class="main-heading">Lake Tahoe, California</h1>
    </header>

        <div class="primary-content">
            <p class="intro">
                Lake Tahoe is one of the most breathtaking attractions located in California. It's home to a number of ski resorts, summer outdoor recreation, and tourist attractions. Snow and skiing are a significant part of the area's reputation.
            </p>
            <a class="callout" href="#more">Find out more</a>
        </div><!-- End .primary-content -->
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
Treehouse Staff
Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
Treehouse Staff

Hi Jonah Tibbetts,

Color stops are stopping points in a gradient that show a specific color at the exact location where you define them. In the case of the snippet from the challenge you've shared you got two colors passed to the linear-gradient. If you don't define a specific point by default the stops will be set at the beginning of the element and the second one at the end of the element.

You could also give them percentage values like so: 

.main-header {
  background-image: linear-gradient(steelblue 50%, darkslateblue);
}

In this example the color stop is steelblue at 50% of the element. Meaning that the top 50% of the element has the steelblue color and then the gradient starts to move to eventually end up as the darkslateblue color at the end of the element.

I hope this helps 🙂