In a previous post, I talked about creating dynamic and scaleable buttons using CSS3. While we can use “border-radius” for rounded corners and “box-shadow” for a nice dropshadow effect, there’s still a problem with giving the button a 3d / plastic look without using images. In my previous example I used a small PNG image (with a gradient from white to transparent) as a background to achieve that effect.

Now, with the release of Firefox 3.6 (Safari / Webkit supported that a bit earlier) we don’t need any images at all, thanks to the “moz-linear-gradient” / “webkit-gradient” property.

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