JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<div class='wrapper'>
    <div class='col'>
        Mollit maecenas nonummy facilisis vel ridiculus gravida sodales, commodo. Est saepe proident suscipit vehicula eget magni, suscipit, do alias consectetur iure, imperdiet veniam mi, maecenas arcu inceptos! Occaecat voluptatum rerum.
    </div>
    <div class='col'>
        Mollit maecenas nonummy facilisis vel ridiculus gravida sodales, commodo. Est saepe proident suscipit vehicula eget magni, suscipit, do alias consectetur iure, imperdiet veniam mi, maecenas arcu inceptos! Occaecat voluptatum rerum.
    </div>
    <div class='col'>
        Mollit maecenas nonummy facilisis vel ridiculus gravida sodales, commodo. Est saepe proident suscipit vehicula eget magni, suscipit, do alias consectetur iure, imperdiet veniam mi, maecenas arcu inceptos! Occaecat voluptatum rerum.
    </div>
    <div class='col'>
        Mollit maecenas nonummy facilisis vel ridiculus gravida sodales, commodo. Est saepe proident suscipit vehicula eget magni, suscipit, do alias consectetur iure, imperdiet veniam mi, maecenas arcu inceptos! Occaecat voluptatum rerum.
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.wrapper {
    float: left; /* no need to be wider then the content */
    overflow: hidden; /* clearfix */
    padding: 10px 10px 0 0; /* no padding left / bottom, the margin left on the cols takes care of that */
/* the gradient: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ */    
background: #ff3232; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ff3232 0%, #000000 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#ff3232), color-stop(100%,#000000)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ff3232 0%,#000000 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ff3232 0%,#000000 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ff3232 0%,#000000 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #ff3232 0%,#000000 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ff3232', endColorstr='#000000',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
}