JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Spencer Wasden

HTML

<div class="fade-out-container">
    <div class="mask text-nowrap">
          short text asdf sad  sdf asdfsds sad sds af sadf sdfsda
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.fade-out-container{
    /* position: absolute; */
    overflow: hidden;
    /* width: 300px;
    height: 150px; */
    border: 1px solid gray;
}

.text-nowrap{
    white-space: nowrap;
}

.mask {
  position: relative;
        
  width: 100%;
  height: auto;
  padding: 2px;

  background-color: transparent;
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(left, #FFFFFF 85%, rgba(208, 208, 211, 0.3) 99%);
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, #FFFFFF 85%, rgba(208, 208, 211, 0.3) 99%);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left, #FFFFFF 85%, rgba(208, 208, 211, 0.3) 99%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #FFFFFF 85%, rgba(208, 208, 211, 0.3) 99%);
  /*filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='[color]', endColorstr='[color]', GradientType=1);*/
}

.mask:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 2;

  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;

  background-color: transparent;
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1) 99%); 
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1) 99%); 
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1) 99%);
  background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 85%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 1) 99%);
  /*filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='[color]', endColorstr='[color]', GradientType=1);*/
}