The center of a radial gradient doesn’t have to be in the center! For example, you can position the center in the top left like this. Some of them do help a little with positioning (see “Expert” settings), but don’t expose all the possibilities. This is a beautiful gradient tool, but doesn’t help with positioning or sizing. They help you pick colors and color stops and stuff, but they usually punt on the positioning stuff. This is one of the shortcomings, I find, with gradient generators. Positionedīesides controlling the size and shape of the gradient, the other big trick to know with radial gradients is that you can position the center of them. See the Pen Lit text by Chris Coyier ( on CodePen. See the Pen Usage of Radial Gradients by Chris Coyier ( on CodePen. See the Pen Radial Gradient – Sizing by Chris Coyier ( on CodePen. Using color stops like radial-gradient(#56ab2f, #a8e063 150px).Explicitly saying like radial-gradient(circle 100px.Using a keyword closest-side, farthest-side, closest-corner, farthest-corner.You can also control the size by literally saying how large the circle/ellipse should be (the final color will still stretch to cover the element) by: If you don’t like that, you can force the shape into a circle, like the second example here demonstrates: That will stretch the gradient into an ellipse on a non-square element though. See the Pen Radial Gradient – Centered by Chris Coyier ( on CodePen. The simplest possible syntax places the first color in the center of the element and the second color on the outside and that’s that:
I figured I’d put together a page of reference examples, so if you know what you need but forget the syntax, it’s easy to find that starter code example here. But it’s also not that easy to remember if you don’t use it often, and it’s more complicated than linear-gradient().
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It’s certainly easier than needing to create a graphic in third-party software to use as the background, and the syntax is highly learnable. It’s amazing we can paint the background of an element with them so easily.
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