Rainbow gradient on text in CSS

Question

What would be the best way to achieve this design in CSS?

and this:

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Here is how you can create basic rainbow linear gradient (without integration with text yet):

#grad1 {      height: 200px;      background: red; /* For browsers that do not support gradients */      background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* For Safari 5.1 to 6.0 */      background: -o-linear-gradient(right, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* For Opera 11.1 to 12.0 */      background: -moz-linear-gradient(right, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* For Firefox 3.6 to 15 */      background: linear-gradient(to right, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* Standard syntax (must be last) */  }

<div id="grad1"></div>

Or alternatively, you can use one of the gradient generators (I prefer this one).

And here is the text integration:

#grad1 {      background: red;      background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet);      background: -o-linear-gradient(right, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet);      background: -moz-linear-gradient(right, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet);      background: linear-gradient(to right, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet);      -webkit-background-clip: text;      -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;      font-size: 20vw;  }

<h1 id="grad1">Fake Text</h1>

Main parts here are background-clip and text-fill-color properties, but be ready, that not all browsers will support it. For more info about browser compatibility check sections with the same names near the bottoms of these pages:

background-clip

text-fill-color

P.S. Drawing a line is pretty simple, you just need to use a gradient and define some styles to make this block the right form, for example:

#grad1 {      background: red; /* For browsers that do not support gradients */      background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* For Safari 5.1 to 6.0 */      background: -o-linear-gradient(right, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* For Opera 11.1 to 12.0 */      background: -moz-linear-gradient(right, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* For Firefox 3.6 to 15 */      background: linear-gradient(to right, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet); /* Standard syntax (must be last) */  }    .line {      height: 6px;      border-radius: 4px;  }

<div id="grad1" class="line"></div>

Answer 2

If you need that same gradient for the text use something like this.

    h1 {    background: linear-gradient(to right, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet);    -webkit-background-clip: text;    -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;    font-size: 60px;    line-height: 60px;  }

<h1>100% Unicorn</h1>

But text-fill-color isn´t supported in Internet Explorer. So perhaps its better to use transparent png or svg in foreground.