CSS fade out horizontal rule / line styled div effect without images

Question

I\'m a big fan of minimal use of images and was wondering if anyone had a tactic (or if it\'s possible) to create this kind of thing with pure static CSS?

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Answer 1

In order to reproduce that horizontal rule, you can use a CSS3 linear-gradient. Just create a div with about a 3px height and apply the following CSS (change the colors as needed):

background: #ffffff; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(left,  #ffffff 0%, #2989d8 25%, #207cca 75%, #ffffff 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, color-stop(0%,#ffffff), color-stop(25%,#2989d8), color-stop(75%,#207cca), color-stop(100%,#ffffff)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left,  #ffffff 0%,#2989d8 25%,#207cca 75%,#ffffff 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(left,  #ffffff 0%,#2989d8 25%,#207cca 75%,#ffffff 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(left,  #ffffff 0%,#2989d8 25%,#207cca 75%,#ffffff 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(left,  #ffffff 0%,#2989d8 25%,#207cca 75%,#ffffff 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#ffffff',GradientType=1 ); /* IE6-9 */

Keep in mind that filter does not support color stops, so you may want an image fall back for < IE10.

Build your own CSS3 gradient here: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/