Gradienter: Add gradient to elements

September 11th, 2010 | Projects, jQuery | 16 Comments

Last night I started to work on Wordpress theme for blog and I got an idea that every post should have their own background color and that maybe those colors can be in gradient. Since that that’s very boring to do manually, I’ve decide to write jQuery plugin which will do that job.

gradienter

Gradienter is easy to use, and with small effort you can have really interesting color effect on your page.

Demo pagesee how it works Downloadtry it for yourself

Since that this is jQuery plugin, we should include jQuery and Gradienter JavaScript files in our page:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="gradienter.js"></script>

After this, at the bottom of the page we have to apply Gradienter on desired elements and optionally set parameters.

$(element).gradienter();

Gradienter have only three parameters:

color_start: 'FFFFFF' // first color in gradient
color_end: '000000' // last color in gradient
prop: 'background-color' // on which CSS property should apply gradient

So, if we want that all elements with ‘box’ class have gradient started from #56B2CB and finished with #164E5D, all we have to do is next:

$('.box').gradienter({ color_start: '56B2CB', color_end: '164E5D' });

Note that colors are in HEX format, without #.

Changing the ‘prop’ parameter gradient can be applied to all CSS properties that have color (background-color, color, border-color).

Comments [ 16 Comments ]

Harry
January 5, 2011

It doesn’t work at all.
Philip
January 7, 2011

Hi
It worked like a sharm! Thank you very much!
webaryans
January 24, 2011

Thanks very nice and it’s working fine.
Jocuri Mario
March 3, 2011

Simple but very effective writing. Thanks for sharing such a nice post
Mike Brown
May 10, 2011

Doesn’t work for me, using Firefox 4.01 and jQuery 1.4.4.

The function appears to think that each element to which the colouring is to be applied is an array of some kind with a valid .length property. i.e.

steps = $(el).length;

But that line always evaluates to 1 for me. Consequently, none of the code inside .each loop below ever executes:

$.each($(el), function(i,item){

FYI, the code sets up lots of global variables, unintentionally. E.g. this line:

var r = g = b = 0;

only sets up r as a local variable. g and b are set to be globals. Other variables in the function have no “var” in their declaration, and so are global.
Swot template
November 1, 2011

Thanks! it’s working fine.
Cheers!
Jacob.
Carolyn Lin
March 31, 2012

Thank you so very much for taking the time to share…very useful, indeed!