---
title: "A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-css-gradients-kx1w-nylg
source_url: https://css-tricks.com/a-complete-guide-to-css-gradients/
type: article
source: "CSS-Tricks"
published: 2020-11-17T00:07:49.156Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["webdev", "css"]
reading_time: 20
upvotes: 18
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients

**[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 20 min read · 18 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

There are three types of gradients: linear, radial, and conic. The syntax is is declared on either the background (shorthand) or background-image property. To make the gradient go from left-to-right, we pass an additional parameter at the beginning of the linear- gradient() function.

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