Question

I’m currently working on a page and it’s almost finished. But there’s one thing, that bothers me. I’ve got a content div (670x400px) with a scrollbar and lots of text and pictures. When I scroll, sometimes the text is cut in halfs and on the edge there is a line half letters left. I’ve attached an image of what I mean.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/195/unbenannt1fll.jpg/

What I would like to do now is to put let the edge fade out. I thought of some ideas like putting a white gradient there or transparency or something with jquery and searched several words put I didn’t find anything useful and I’m too bad to think of something myself. I hope you can understand my problem and help me maybe.

EDIT:

I’ve added a (photoshopped) picture of what I would like to create.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/339/unbenannt1qo.jpg/

Answer 1

Apologies for the formatting but here is the relevant css for a background gradient from white to transparent. That should do what you need.

Edit

It’s possible do do this without adding a second element by using the :before pseudo-element positioned absolutely within your containing div. This will not work though in IE7. Here’s a fiddle to demonstrate

.gradient{
    position:relative;
}

.gradient:before{
position:absolute;
content: " ";
top:0;
width:100%;
height:20px;
z-index:1;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(255,255,255,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(255,255,255,0))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#00ffffff',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */

}