I've got a heading with borders extending sideways (inspired by Chris Coyiers example). I'm trying to fade the borders out by overlapping them with a gradient background. However, I'm not able to make it work, but I feel it should be possible somehow. To illustrate what effect I'm looking for:
This is what I have now:
And this is what I'm trying to achieve:
The code I have now:
HTML
<article>
<p>Lorem ipsum etc.</p>
<p class="fancy">
<a href="#">read more</a>
</p>
</article>
CSS
body {
background: red; /* Just to show the effect of the transparency, the final background will be white */
font-size: 150%;
}
/* This is for the horizontal borders extending sideways from the heading */
.fancy a {
max-width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
display: block;
color: black;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
font-family:'Bitter', serif;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 32px;
}
.fancy a:before, .fancy a:after {
content:"";
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
height: .1em;
width: 50%;
border-top: 1px dotted black;
border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
margin-bottom: .25em;
}
.fancy a:before {
right: .5em;
margin-left: -50%;
}
.fancy a:after {
left: .5em;
margin-right: -50%;
}
/* This is the gradient I want to display in front of the border. The body will have a white background, so it will look like the border is fading out */
.fancy {
/* Safari 5.1, Chrome 10+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), rgba(255, 255, 255, 1));
/* Firefox 3.6+ */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), rgba(255, 255, 255, 1));
/* IE 10 */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), rgba(255, 255, 255, 1));
/* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), rgba(255, 255, 255, 1));
}
For easy fiddling the code is here: http://jsfiddle.net/QEdxe/3/
Does anyone know how to do this? I've already tried with absolute positioning and z-index, but I can't get the gradient to overlap to dotted borders..