fill div with 2 colors? - html

Question

given a div that is 500px wide, is there a way to fill the background with 2 different colors using css? I know it can be done with a background image, but just wondering if it can be done with bg color.
eg :

Answer 1

You can't set multiple background colors, but you could set something like:
div.twocolorish {
background-color: green;
border-left: 20px solid red;
}
As long as you don't need text to go over the part in red then this would take care of you in one div.

Answer 2

I ended up with this solution using linear gradients:
.dualcol-test {
background: linear-gradient(to right, green 0%, green 80%, red 80%, red 100%);
}
<div class="dualcol-test"> This div has a green and red background <br><br><br> </div>

Answer 3

You can achieve 2 colors in 1 div by using pseudo-element :before
HTML:
<div class="twocolordiv"></div>
CSS:
.twocolordiv {
position: relative;
z-index: 9;
background: green;
width:500px;
height:100px;
}
.twocolordiv:before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
z-index: -1;
top: 0;
right: 20%;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
background: red;
}

Answer 4

You can use linear-gradient background to do this
background: linear-gradient(90deg, green 50%,red 50%);

Answer 5

No, you can only set one background-color. However, you could split your container into two and set a different backgorund-color for each one.

Answer 6

This question got me thinking about how CSS3 would approach this problem.. and frankly the specification has me confused. That said, a couple of features that are creeping through the cracks: background-size and linear-gradient.
<style type="text/css">
#ji { width: 500px; height: 300px;
background:
-moz-linear-gradient(green, green) 0px 0px no-repeat,
-moz-linear-gradient(red, red) 200px 50px no-repeat,
-moz-linear-gradient(blue, blue) 0px 250px no-repeat,
-moz-linear-gradient(gray, gray) 300px 125px no-repeat;
-moz-background-size: 450px 50px, 50px 200px, 250px 250px, 50px 250px;
}
</style>
<div id="ji">
</div>
Give this a go :)
I'm sure there are better approaches to this problem, but it does demonstrate that we'll be afforded greater flexibility with CSS backgrounds (one day).
Edit: Forgot to mention that this will only work in Firefox, though there are Webkit equivalents for linear-gradient and background size

Answer 7

Using the :before css attribute allows you to 'fill' a div with the two colours.
.myDiv {
position: relative; /*Parent MUST be relative*/
z-index: 9;
background: green;
/*Set width/height of the div in 'parent'*/
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
.myDiv:before {
content: "";
position: absolute; /*set 'child' to be absolute*/
z-index: -1; /*Make this lower so text appears in front*/
/*You can choose to align it left, right, top or bottom here*/
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 60%;
left: 0;
background: red;
}
<div class="myDiv">this is my div with multiple colours. It work's with text too!</div>
An easily edited sample can be seen LIVE DEMO

Answer 8

Using background-image / repeat-y is the easiest solution - however, maybe you want to change colours or widths or something with Javascript.
Here's a way to do this which allows text everywhere.
http://jsfiddle.net/WQ8CG/
HTML:
<div id="container"><div class="offset">text</div></div>
CSS:
#container {
background: #ccc;
border-right: 40px solid #aaa
}
.offset {
margin-right: -40px;
zoom: 1; /* to fix IE7 and IE6 */
position: relative /* to fix IE6 */
}

Answer 9

Better late then never. Thought this might help:
The htmls
<div id="content">
<div id="left"></div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
The csss
#content { background-color: #F1EBD9; }
#left { float: left; width: 14em; }
#right { margin-left: 14em; background-color: #FFF; }
You can view this # http://alexandergutierrez.info/stretch-background-color-in-a-two-col-layout

Answer 10

You could you inset box shadow, and change the shadow to whatever colour you required.
CSS
-moz-box-shadow: inset 50px 0px 0px 0px rgba(156, 244, 255, 1);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 50px 0px 0px 0px rgba(156, 244, 255, 1);
box-shadow: inset 50px 0px 0px 0px rgba(156, 244, 255, 1);