Tonight I discovered a very cool tool that was right under my nose: Colorzilla’s CSS Gradient Generator. I use Firefox as my main browser, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve used colorzilla’s plug-in to grab colors from web pages. You wonder what that color is? click on the colorzilla tool and click the color, and you’ve got it. Well, in the colorzilla menu is something that may be new, or for all I know it may have been there for a long time. Check it out:

Choosing that option takes you to a slick tool that lets you create a gradient on the fly, then paste in your stylesheet. Amazing.

You can even plan for the old browsers by choosing either a color or the gradient image you’re replacing. The subsequent background commands will style newer browsers. Outstanding.

I’ve done exactly that in the menu bar gradient above.