CSS Gradient - too many color breaks - html

Question

I am running into an issue with css linear-gradients. I am looking to make clean color breaks at certain percentages. But it seems to start blurring the colors when I add more than a certain number:
This is the example of the css gradient with "too many" color breaks - and blurs where it should not:
div {
height: 100px;
background-color: red;
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #ffffff 25%, #042750 25% 28%, #ffffff 28% 29%, #03aeef 29% 31%, #ffffff 31% 32%, #042750 32% 90%, #ffffff 90% 91%, #03aeef 91% 93%, #ffffff 93% 94%, #ffd900 94% 96%, #ffffff 96% 97%, #042750 97% 100%);
}
<div></div>
This is an example of it with it enough color breaks so it doesn't blur:
div {
height: 100px;
background-color: red;
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #ffffff 25%, #042750 25% 28%, #ffffff 28% 29%, #03aeef 29% 31%, #ffffff 31% 32%, #042750 32% 90%, #ffffff 90% 91%, #03aeef 91% 100%)
}
<div></div>

Answer 1

In such case it's better to use multiple gradient:
div {
height: 100px;
background:
/* Color position /width height */
linear-gradient(#03aeef,#03aeef) 50% 0 / 5% 100%, /* top layer */
linear-gradient(#fff,#fff) 50% 0 / 10% 100%,
linear-gradient(#03aeef,#03aeef) 87% 0 / 5% 100%,
linear-gradient(#ffd900 ,#ffd900) 94% 0 / 5% 100%,
linear-gradient(#fff,#fff) 95% 0 / 15% 100%,
linear-gradient(#042750,#042750) right / 60% 100%; /* bottom layer */
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
<div></div>