GradientField

The GradientField is an Editor-only control that lets users set a color gradient from a Gradient Editor.

Note: To align an element with other fields in an InspectorA Unity window that displays information about the currently selected GameObject, asset or project settings, allowing you to inspect and edit the values. More info
See in Glossary window, simply apply the .unity-base-field__aligned USS class to it. For more information, refer to BaseField.

Create a GradientField

You can create a GradientField with UI(User Interface) Allows a user to interact with your application. Unity currently supports three UI systems. More info
See in Glossary Builder, UXML, or C#. The following C# example creates a GradientField with a default value:

var gradient = new GradientField();
gradient.value = new Gradient();
gradient.value.colorKeys = new GradientColorKey[]
{
    new GradientColorKey(Color.red, 0),
    new GradientColorKey(Color.blue, 10),
    new GradientColorKey(Color.green, 20)
};

Example

The following UXML example creates a GradientField:

<UXML xmlns="UnityEngine.UIElements" xmlns:uie="UnityEditor.UIElements">
    <uie:GradientField label="UXML Field" name="the-uxml-field" />
</UXML>

The following C# example illustrates some of the customizable functionalities of the GradientField:

/// <sample>
var initialValue = new Gradient();
initialValue.colorKeys = new GradientColorKey[]
{
    new GradientColorKey(Color.red, 0),
    new GradientColorKey(Color.blue, 10),
    new GradientColorKey(Color.green, 20)
};

// Get a reference to the field from UXML and assign a value to it.
var uxmlField = container.Q<GradientField>("the-uxml-field");
uxmlField.value = initialValue;

// Create a new field, disable it, and give it a style class.
var csharpField = new GradientField("C# Field");
csharpField.SetEnabled(false);
csharpField.AddToClassList("some-styled-field");
csharpField.value = uxmlField.value;
container.Add(csharpField);

// Mirror the value of the UXML field into the C# field.
uxmlField.RegisterCallback<ChangeEvent<Gradient>>((evt) =>
{
    csharpField.value = evt.newValue;
});
/// </sample>

To try this example live in Unity, go to Window > UI Toolkit > Samples.

C# base class and namespace

C# class: GradientField
Namespace: UnityEditor.UIElements
Base class: BaseField_1

Member UXML attributes

This element has the following member attributes:

Inherited UXML attributes

This element inherits the following attributes from its base class:

This element also inherits the following attributes from VisualElement:

USS classes

The following table lists all the C# public property names and their related USS selector.

You can also use the Matching Selectors section in the Inspector or the UI Toolkit Debugger to see which USS selectors affect the components of the VisualElement at every level of its hierarchy.

Additional resources

• Gradient
• ColorField
• GradientMode