I have a multistop gradient created with colorzilla that I have successfully gotten to work as the background of my website. It works perfectly for firefox, chrome, and IE9. For IE7 and below, it only shows a white background, which is acceptible but not preferable, and to be frank, going back 2 generations, I am not worried about it. However, IE8 only shows a gradient from the first color to the last color, no stops in the middle, which would normally get rid of the middle color, which was white in my case. For the purposes of making it somewhat better, I changed it so the white would be the last color of that gradient, but it is by no means a perfect suggestion.
The solution, to me, appears to be converting my already created multistop gradient from the css code it is in into an image that I can repeat endlessly as necessary, as was traditionally done before the modern era of css gradients. However, I have been unable to find any sort of tool or code that would allow me to do this for a given height and width. Does anyone know of any tool, preferably free, that would satisfy these needs? For the purpose of this question, the gradient code I am using is the following:
background: #72b4f9; /* Old browsers */
/* IE9 SVG, needs conditional override of 'filter' to 'none' */
background: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #72b4f9 0%, #ffffff 25%, #ffffff 45%, #57c14f 96%, #397731 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#72b4f9), color-stop(25%,#ffffff), color-stop(45%,#ffffff), color-stop(96%,#57c14f), color-stop(100%,#397731)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #72b4f9 0%,#ffffff 25%,#ffffff 45%,#57c14f 96%,#397731 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #72b4f9 0%,#ffffff 25%,#ffffff 45%,#57c14f 96%,#397731 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #72b4f9 0%,#ffffff 25%,#ffffff 45%,#57c14f 96%,#397731 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(top, #72b4f9 0%,#ffffff 25%,#ffffff 45%,#57c14f 96%,#397731 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#A2CEFB', endColorstr='#ffffff',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-8 */
I ended up finding a website that did essentially what I wanted at http://gradcolor.com/. I was able to create multiple gradients at a specific size, and the website created the file for me to download and upload to the website. Thank you everyone for your suggestions, as they led to me finding this.