This is by far the most hassle free and best way to implement this. It is purely CSS and very very simple to do, no extra files – nothing. Ok, it’s not the best way possible, but it works very well, very reliable (never failed when testing across very old browsers) and very fast to … Read more
Gradients don’t support transitions yet (although the current spec says they should support like gradient to like gradient transitions via interpolation.). If you want a fade-in effect with a background gradient, you have to set an opacity on a container element and ‘transition` the opacity. (There have been some browser releases that supported transitions on … Read more