gradient tool

[mindyt743513]

Hi, I drew an enclosed object with the line tool.  I selected it with the direct selection tool and I can't get it to fill with the gradient tool.  What am I doing wrong? 

[Mohammad.Harb]

does the stroke on top of the fill ? if not, just click on the stroke color as shown in the image below

[mindyt743513]

I'm not sure I understand what you are talking about but here is a screenshot of what I see. 

[Monika Gause]

You've got a calligraphy brush applied. SEt that to a simple stroke

[mindyt743513]

's I apologize but can you show you where you see that? 

[Monika Gause]

Sorry, didn't enlarge your screenshot. The reason is you've got your gradient applied to the fill instead of the stroke. You need to exchange both by clicking on that little curved arrow. Then set the fill to none so that it won't irritate.

[mindyt743513]

if I set the fill to null and the stroke to gradiant, the border of the object is gradiant but I want the whole object to be filled  with the gradient

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

THose are single paths. You will first need to combine them to get a shape