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12,842 PointsBox Model with Gradients: Who/What Decides Where the Points in the Box are?
In Guil's Video: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-basics/designing-with-the-latest-features/gradients-color-stops
He discusses the point 0 of our box that he's manipulating the color gradient of as the upper right hand corner, but he never before nor during the video explained the mapping/plotting system of a box...are they always the same? Do all boxes start at point 0 in the upper right hand corner and end in 100 in the lower left or is it arbitrarily assigned based on the whims of the designer?
Can someone point me to a non-StackOverflow/Mozilla Developer Network site that explains more about what the "skeletal" structure of the box is in terms of these points? Thanks!
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! While I love MDN and stackoverflow, I understand that they can seem a bit overwhelming at times. Here's a link to a relatively decent example of gradients and how they work. It should give you a good idea of how all this works, and you can even experiment with the code to see how things change with different values.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_gradients.asp
Hope this helps!
edited for additional notes
Yes, the mapping of the box is always the same and not up to the designer. This is defined by the w3.