CSS: Gradient colour or is that always an image?

[eclipse]

Hi,
A few months ago I finally learned how some websites have a small gradient colour image and then just repeat it across or down their site to get a "gradient" from dark to light tones in their chosen colour.

I'm wondering, is gradient colour now a CSS command, or going to become a CSS command, that can do away with the need for repeating an image?

 

[macjram]

http://www.google.com/search?q=css+...ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBF_en

first link

 

[eclipse]

Oh, okay, but I was more after a colour effect going from light to dark without a background image. Maybe it was something from my imagination. Not to mind, I've got to learn how to do it with the image I guess.

 

[eclipse]

Like here... see how the green bar fades from dark green to light green?

(You might hit another colour... it's one of those select your favourite colour themes for SMF)

http://www.smfthemes.org/index.php?board=1.0

 

[Trip.Tucker]

You're thinking of CSS3 which the current nightly webkits support, and Firefox has partial support. Gradients from CSS code only. No image required.

....not to be confused with No Jacket Required - the awesome 1985 album from Phil Collins.

 

[eclipse]

Aha! Lynda.com didn't lie to me! Yes, I remember it now... CSS3. D'oh! Too long to wait... have to do other image repeat thing for now.