Gradienter: Add gradient to elements

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

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).