JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by John Grivas

HTML

<label for="pretty">Label text</label>

CSS

label {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 0 2px;
    margin: 2px;
}
label:before {
    content:"";
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: -1;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    background: white;
}
label:after {
    content:"";
    position: absolute;
    top: -2px;
    bottom: -2px;
    left: -2px;
    right: -2px;
    z-index: -2;
    background: #1e5799;
    /* Old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #1e5799 13%, #efe22f 79%);
    /* FF3.6+ */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(13%, #1e5799), color-stop(79%, #efe22f));
    /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #1e5799 13%, #efe22f 79%);
    /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #1e5799 13%, #efe22f 79%);
    /* Opera 11.10+ */
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #1e5799 13%, #efe22f 79%);
    /* IE10+ */
    background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #1e5799 13%, #efe22f 79%);
    /* W3C */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#1e5799', endColorstr='#efe22f', GradientType=0);
    /* IE6-9 */
}