I'm applying a basic linear-gradient like this:
background-image: linear-gradient(to top, red, rgba(0,0,0,0));
this behaves as it's supposed to everywhere except in safari where the transparent is rendered as a blackish/greyish color:
here's chrome (how it is supposed to be):
and here's safari
I've tried prefixing it with -webkit-
, changing the rgba
to rgba(0,0,0,0.001)
but it never goes to solid transparent. is this a bug? is there a way to fix this?
here's a fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/2Lrp3sv1/2/
This has to do with the way browsers render transparent
.
For most browsers,
transparent === rgba(255,255,255,0)
But Safari renders it as
transparent === rgba(0,0,0,0)
So if you have a gradient from transparent
to white
(or rgba(255,255,255,1)
), for most browsers you're only changing the alpha from 0 to 1 along the gradient.
But for Safari, you're changing the alpha from 0 to 1 and the color from 255
to 0
, so you get a gradient of greys.
This drove me crazy for a while.
i am seeing this in Safari, too. For me, it is fading to a light red, even though none of the colors I use is anywhere near red.
I solved it using 'transparent' as the value. Once I stopped using rgba, it looked like expected.