#Visual Appearance

#Background and Borders

You can do a lot creative things with background and borders. Using background-image to apply network image or gradient effects to the background area of an element, using border-radius to add a rounded corner, using box-shadow to create a shadow effect.

In the following example, we add a background with gradient effect, two styles of borders at top and left sides, a black shadow to an element with the top right corner rounded.

#Colors

With Lynx CSS, you can apply color values to various properties to create the look you want.

#Properties that can have color

#Text

• color: The color to use when drawing the text.
• -x-handle-color: The color of selection handlers (the cursur on the two ends of the selected text) when text is selected.
• text-shadow: The color of the shadow in the shape of text.
• text-decoration-color: The color to use when drawing the decoration line on the text.

#Background and Border

• background-color: The background color of the element.
• box-shadow: The color of shadow.
• border-color: The color to use when drawing the border. Can be set separately for the foursides via border-top-color, border-top-color, border-top-color or border-top-color as well.

Colors can be set to the property via selectors or the style property of the element directly. The color value should be a hex number start with a '#', or a value calculated by function rgb(), rgba() or hsl(). View the specification for <color> value for more details.

#Gradient

You can use <gradient> value to define a gradient effect and apply it to the following properties:

• color: Drawing the text with a gradient effect.
• background-image: Fill the background area with a gradient effect.
• mask-image: Use the gradient effect to create a alpha mask.

Text with a gradient color

Filling background with radial-gradient

Create a 'fading edge' effect by adding linear-gradient to mask-imageproperty

#Clipping and Masking

In Lynx, besides overflow, you can show content of an element in the area you want using clip-path and mask-image.

Using clip-path to clip out a super-elliptical area

Using mask-image to create a circle area with fading edge