wired.com link style

index.html

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scripts

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

style.scss

p {
  font: 2em/1.4 Verdana, "Helvetica Nue", sans-serif;
  padding: 0 1em;
  margin: 1em 10%;
}

a {
  color: inherit;
  text-decoration: none;
  
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%, rgba(198,232,248,0) 75%, rgba(192,230,247,1) 83%, rgba(192,230,247,1) 94%, rgba(184,226,245,1) 95%, rgba(184,226,245,1) 97%, rgba(184,226,245,0) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(255,255,255,0)), color-stop(75%,rgba(198,232,248,0)), color-stop(83%,rgba(192,230,247,1)), color-stop(94%,rgba(192,230,247,1)), color-stop(95%,rgba(184,226,245,1)), color-stop(97%,rgba(184,226,245,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(184,226,245,0))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%,rgba(198,232,248,0) 75%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 83%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 94%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 95%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 97%,rgba(184,226,245,0) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%,rgba(198,232,248,0) 75%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 83%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 94%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 95%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 97%,rgba(184,226,245,0) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%,rgba(198,232,248,0) 75%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 83%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 94%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 95%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 97%,rgba(184,226,245,0) 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%,rgba(198,232,248,0) 75%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 83%,rgba(192,230,247,1) 94%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 95%,rgba(184,226,245,1) 97%,rgba(184,226,245,0) 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#00ffffff', endColorstr='#00b8e2f5',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */

}

wired-com-link-style.markdown

wired.com link style

In answer to the following stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20915850/pure-css-implementation-of-wired-coms-hyperlink-style

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