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When using linear-gradient CSS property, the background appears without stripes when using left and right as direction value. But when direction value is given as top or bottom, stripes appears in the background. Is there any way that we can remove the stripes?
Here is the code:
body {
background: linear-gradient(to top, red, yellow);
}
You are facing a complex background propagation that you can read about here. I will try to explain it with simple words.
Your
body
has a height equal to 0; thus the background won't be visible on it but by default it has8px
of margin which create a height of8px
on thehtml
element.Why not 16px of height (8px for top + 8px for bottom)?
Since the height of body is 0 we are facing a margin collpasing and both margin will collapse into only one and we have a height of 8px.
Then we have a background propagation from
body
tohtml
and thelinear-gradient
will cover the 8px height.Finally, the background of the html is propagated to root element in order to cover the whole area which explain that the linear gradient is repeating each
8px
.It's also repeated when using left or right direction but you won't see it visually which is logic since it's the same pattern:
In order to avoid this behavior you can simply set
height:100%
to thehtml
That's because the calculated height of
<body>
is resulting from the height of its content. When smaller than viewport's height, the background will repeat itself:To make sure it stretches itself (and the background gradient) across the entire height of the viewport, you need to give
<body>
amin-height
equal with viewport's height (100vw
):As @TemaniAfif pointed out in comments, the technical reason for the above is: there is a difference between the root element, which covers the entire viewport and inherits its background from
<body>
, and the<body>
element, which, as specified, can be smaller than the viewport. As per W3C Recommendation: