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    copied!<p>You could use SVG, its a little outside the box, but its cross browser compatible and gives you some more options.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/apaul34208/XfHa3/5/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Working Example</a></strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;svg height="50"&gt; &lt;linearGradient id="g1" x="0%" y="100%"&gt; &lt;stop stop-color="blue" offset="0%" /&gt; &lt;stop stop-color="green" offset="25%" /&gt; &lt;stop stop-color="yellow" offset="50%" /&gt; &lt;stop stop-color="orange" offset="75%" /&gt; &lt;stop stop-color="red" offset="100%" /&gt; &lt;/linearGradient&gt; &lt;text font-size="40" fill="url(#g1)"&gt; &lt;tspan x="10" y="40"&gt;Hello World!&lt;/tspan&gt; &lt;/text&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; </code></pre> <p>Tested and working in Chrome, Firefox, and IE9</p> <p>If you've really got your heart set on a cutout effect, it can also be done with SVG.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/apaul34208/XfHa3/15/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Working Example 2</a></strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="wrap"&gt; &lt;div class="black"&gt; &lt;svg width="300" height="100"&gt; &lt;mask id="cutouttext"&gt; &lt;rect width="280" height="50" x="0" y="15" fill="white" /&gt; &lt;text x="50%" y="55%" text-anchor="middle" font-size="48"&gt;Hello World&lt;/text&gt; &lt;/mask&gt; &lt;rect width="280" height="50" x="25" y="15" fill="black" mask="url(#cutouttext)" /&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Fall back for IE8 and below:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!--[if lt IE 9]&gt; &lt;style&gt; .wrap { color: #ff0000; font-size:48px; text-align: center; padding-top: 10px; height: 90px; } .black { background: black; margin: 0 auto; width:250px; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt; </code></pre> <p>The way it looks in modern browsers:<br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dZ3PO.png" alt="enter image description here"><br> and how it looks in IE8 and below:<br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zcNDV.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Documentation:<br> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Gradients" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MDN SVG Gradients</a><br> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/text" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MDN SVG Text</a><br> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/mask" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MDN Mask</a></p>
 

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