Question

I need to create the following in CSS and have it work on IE7+ (and Firefox if possible):

Everything is done except the background!

The quotation is different each time, so the background needs to automatically adjust in height.

It also needs to auto adjust to the width of the container it’s placed within. By this, I mean the gradient cannot stretch. The background needs to be the fade-in left gradient, then the background colour, then the fade-out right gradient.

Here’s my current code – now on JSFiddle:

HTML

<div id="ehs-quotecontainer">
    <div id="ehs-bgleft">
    </div>
    <div id="ehs-bgright">
    </div>
    <div class="ehs-marks" id="ehs-marktop">                    
        “
    </div>
    <span class="ehs-quotetext">Once you believe anything, you stop thinking about it.</span>
    <div class="ehs-marks" id="ehs-markbottom">
        ”
    </div>
</div>

CSS

#ehs-quotecontainer  {
    padding-top:8px;
    padding-bottom:8px;
    background-color:#F7F8FA;
    text-align:center;
}
#ehs-bgleft {
    background:transparent url(../images/ehsbgleft.jpg) repeat-y scroll right top;
}
#ehs-bgright {
    background:transparent url(../images/ehsbgright.jpg) repeat-y scroll right top;
}
.ehs-marks {
    height:20px;
    color:#8B8C90;
    font-size:5.0em;
}
#ehs-marktop {
    float:left;
    margin-top:-18px;
}
#ehs-markbottom {
    float:right;
    margin-top:-5px;
}
.ehs-quotetext {
    padding-left:4px;
    padding-right:4px;
    color:#000;
    font-size:1.1em;
    font-style:italic;
}

Any ideas on how to make the background work correctly?

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is to make the entire quote position:relative so that you can position things inside it, relative to the quote container.

After that what you ask is fairly easy to do:

http://jsfiddle.net/7GEah/1/