Document the behavior of `axis=None` with `style.background_gradient`
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Add docstring entry for using `axis=None`with `style.background_gradient`, which was added in #21259. Also reword to be in numerical order and consistent with how `highlight_max` and `highligh_min` defines column-wise and row-wise.

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- Hits        48595    48338    -257     
- Misses       4365     4628    +263
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@WillAyd Fixed. Sorry, didn't notice that the pandas doc used the stylized left/right unicode quotation marks when I copied from your suggestion.
Thanks @joelostblom !