Styling a vertical-line - html

Question

I want to make a vertical line looking like this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2na44n7.png
I've tried the following code:
div.vertical-line{
float:right;
width:5px;
background-color:black;
margin-right:20px;
background: #FFFFFF;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#CFCFCF));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF);
background: -o-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF);
background: linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF);
-pie-background: linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF);
behavior: url(/pie/PIE.htc);
}
but the result wasn't as expected.
here is the result:
http://jsfiddle.net/rLyyc/
it's close, but it doesn't "fade-out" at the end of the line.
Any suggestions?
thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Using this generator, I got this for you:
background: #ffffff; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #c6cbd2 50%, #ffffff 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#ffffff), color-stop(50%,#c6cbd2), color-stop(100%,#ffffff)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#c6cbd2 50%,#ffffff 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#c6cbd2 50%,#ffffff 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#c6cbd2 50%,#ffffff 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #ffffff 0%,#c6cbd2 50%,#ffffff 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#ffffff',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */

Answer 2

You'll want to add another stop point, i.e.
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#CFCFCF), to(#FFFFFF));
Resulting in:
div.vertical-line{
float:right;
width:5px;
background-color:black;
margin-right:20px;
min-height: 550px;
height:100%;
background: #FFFFFF;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#CFCFCF), to(#FFFFFF));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF, #FFFFFF);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF, #FFFFFF);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF, #FFFFFF);
background: -o-linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF, #FFFFFF);
background: linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF, #FFFFFF);
-pie-background: linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #CFCFCF, #FFFFFF);
behavior: url(/pie/PIE.htc);
}
It's worth looking at MDN to see how color-stops work in linear-gradient: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/linear-gradient

Answer 3

This will create the line that your looking for and position it in the middle of the page. Just adjust the width for line-thickness, height for height of the line from top to bottom, top for how far down before the line starts, and colors to whatever you want them to be.
body:after {
content:"";
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
top:50%;
bottom:0;
left:50%;
border: 0;
height: 80%;
width:1px;
background: #333;
background-image:
-webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ccc, #333, #ccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ccc, #333, #ccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ccc, #333, #ccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ccc, #333, #ccc);
}