I'm looking to "cut" the top left corner of a div, like if you had folded the corner of a page down.
I'd like to do it in pure CSS, are there any methods?
If the parent element has a solid color background, you can use pseudo-elements to create the effect:
div {
height: 300px;
background: red;
position: relative;
}
div:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0; right: 0;
border-top: 80px solid white;
border-left: 80px solid red;
width: 0;
}
<div></div>
http://jsfiddle.net/2bZAW/
P.S. The upcoming border-corner-shape is exactly what you're looking for. Too bad it might get cut out of the spec, and never make it into any browsers in the wild :(
CSS Clip-Path
Using a clip-path is a new, up and coming alternative. Its starting to get supported more and more and is now becoming well documented. Since it uses SVG to create the shape, it is responsive straight out of the box.
CanIUse
Clip Path Generator
div {
width: 200px;
min-height: 200px;
-webkit-clip-path: polygon(0 0, 0 100%, 100% 100%, 100% 25%, 75% 0);
clip-path: polygon(0 0, 0 100%, 100% 100%, 100% 25%, 75% 0);
background: lightblue;
}
<div>
<p>Some Text</p>
</div>
CSS Transform
I have an alternative to web-tiki's transform answer.
body {
background: lightgreen;
}
div {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background: transparent;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
div.bg {
width: 200%;
height: 200%;
background: lightblue;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: -75%;
transform-origin: 50% 50%;
transform: rotate(45deg);
z-index: -1;
}
<div>
<div class="bg"></div>
<p>Some Text</p>
</div>
If you need a transparent cut out edge, you can use a rotated pseudo element as a background for the div and position it to cut out the desired corner:
body {
background: url(http://i.imgur.com/k8BtMvj.jpg);
background-size: cover;
}
div {
position: relative;
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 20px;
text-align: center;
}
div:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
width: 1100%; height: 1100%;
top: 20px; right: -500%;
background: rgba(255,255,255,.8);
transform-origin: 54% 0;
transform: rotate(45deg);
z-index: -1;
}
<div>
... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>
</div>
Note that this solution uses transforms and you need to add the required vendor prefixes. For more info see canIuse.
To cut the bottom right edge, you can change the top, transform and transform-origin properties of the pseudo element to:
body {
background: url(http://i.imgur.com/k8BtMvj.jpg);
background-size: cover;
}
div {
position: relative;
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 20px;
text-align: center;
}
div:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
width: 1100%; height: 1100%;
bottom: 20px; right: -500%;
background: rgba(255,255,255,.8);
transform-origin: 54% 100%;
transform: rotate(-45deg);
z-index: -1;
}
<div>
... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>... content ...<br/>
</div>
Here is another approach using CSS transform: skew(45deg) to produce the cut corner effect. The shape itself involves three elements (1 real and 2 pseudo-elements) as follows:
The main container div element has overflow: hidden and produces the left border.
The :before pseudo-element which is 20% the height of the parent container and has a skew transform applied to it. This element prodcues the border on the top and cut (slanted) border on the right side.
The :after pseudo-element which is 80% the height of the parent (basically, remaining height) and produces the bottom border, the remaining portion of the right border.
The output produced is responsive, produces a transparent cut at the top and supports transparent backgrounds.
div {
position: relative;
height: 100px;
width: 200px;
border-left: 2px solid beige;
overflow: hidden;
}
div:after,
div:before {
position: absolute;
content: '';
width: calc(100% - 2px);
left: 0px;
z-index: -1;
}
div:before {
height: 20%;
top: 0px;
border: 2px solid beige;
border-width: 2px 3px 0px 0px;
transform: skew(45deg);
transform-origin: right bottom;
}
div:after {
height: calc(80% - 4px);
bottom: 0px;
border: 2px solid beige;
border-width: 0px 2px 2px 0px;
}
.filled:before, .filled:after {
background-color: beige;
}
/* Just for demo */
div {
float: left;
color: beige;
padding: 10px;
transition: all 1s;
margin: 10px;
}
div:hover {
height: 200px;
width: 300px;
}
div.filled{
color: black;
}
body{
background-image: radial-gradient(circle, #3F9CBA 0%, #153346 100%);
}
<div class="cut-corner">Some content</div>
<div class="cut-corner filled">Some content</div>
The below is another method to produce the cut corner effect by using linear-gradient background images. A combination of 3 gradient images (given below) is used:
One linear gradient (angled towards bottom left) to produce the cut corner effect. This gradient has a fixed 25px x 25px size.
One linear gradient to provide a solid color to the left of the triangle that causes the cut effect. A gradient is used even though it produces a solid color because we can control size, position of background only when images or gradients are used. This gradient is positioned at -25px on X-axis (basically meaning it would end before the place where the cut is present).
Another gradient similar to the above which again produces a solid color but is positioned at 25px down on the Y-axis (again to leave out the cut area).
The output produced is responsive, produces transparent cut and doesn't require any extra elements (real or pseudo). The drawback is that this approach would work only when the background (fill) is a solid color and it is very difficult to produce borders (but still possible as seen in the snippet).
.cut-corner {
height: 100px;
width: 200px;
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom left, transparent 50%, beige 50%), linear-gradient(beige, beige), linear-gradient(beige, beige);
background-size: 25px 25px, 100% 100%, 100% 100%;
background-position: 100% 0%, -25px 0%, 100% 25px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.filled {
background-image: linear-gradient(black, black), linear-gradient(black, black), linear-gradient(black, black), linear-gradient(black, black), linear-gradient(to bottom left, transparent calc(50% - 1px), black calc(50% - 1px), black calc(50% + 1px), beige calc(50% + 1px)), linear-gradient(beige, beige), linear-gradient(beige, beige);
background-size: 2px 100%, 2px 100%, 100% 2px, 100% 2px, 25px 25px, 100% 100%, 100% 100%;
background-position: 0% 0%, 100% 25px, -25px 0%, 0px 100%, 100% 0%, -25px 0%, 100% 25px;
}
/* Just for demo */
*{
box-sizing: border-box;
}
div {
float: left;
color: black;
padding: 10px;
transition: all 1s;
margin: 10px;
}
div:hover {
height: 200px;
width: 300px;
}
body{
background-image: radial-gradient(circle, #3F9CBA 0%, #153346 100%);
}
<div class="cut-corner">Some content</div>
<div class="cut-corner filled">Some content</div>
You could use linear-gradient. Let's say the parent div had a background image, and you needed a div to sit on top of that with a gray background and a dog-eared left corner. You could do something like this:
.parent-div { background: url('/image.jpg'); }
.child-div {
background: #333;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, transparent 30px, #333 0);
}
See it on CodePen
Further reading:
CSS Gradients on CSS-Tricks
Beveled corners & negative border-radius with CSS3 gradients
I have an online generator for some of the below code: https://css-generators.com/custom-corners/
You can use mask and CSS variables to have better control over the whole shape. It's responsive, transparent and allow any kind of background:
.box {
--all:0px;
width:200px;
height:150px;
display:inline-block;
margin:10px;
background:red;
-webkit-mask:
linear-gradient( 45deg, transparent 0 var(--bottom-left,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) bottom left,
linear-gradient( -45deg, transparent 0 var(--bottom-right,var(--all)),#fff 0) bottom right,
linear-gradient( 135deg, transparent 0 var(--top-left,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) top left,
linear-gradient(-135deg, transparent 0 var(--top-right,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) top right;
-webkit-mask-size:50.5% 50.5%;
-webkit-mask-repeat:no-repeat;
}
body {
background:grey;
}
<div class="box" style="--top-left:20px"></div>
<div class="box" style="--top-right:20px;--bottom-right:50px;background:radial-gradient(red,yellow)"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:30px;background:url(https://picsum.photos/id/104/200/200)"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:30px;--bottom-right:0px;background:linear-gradient(red,blue)"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:50%;width:150px;background:green"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:12%;width:150px;background:repeating-linear-gradient(45deg,#000 0 10px,#fff 0 20px)"></div>
And below in case you want to consider border:
.box {
--all:0px;
--b:pink;
width:200px;
height:150px;
display:inline-block;
margin:10px;
border:5px solid var(--b);
background:
linear-gradient( 45deg, var(--b) 0 calc(var(--bottom-left,var(--all)) + 5px) ,transparent 0) bottom left /50% 50%,
linear-gradient( -45deg, var(--b) 0 calc(var(--bottom-right,var(--all)) + 5px),transparent 0) bottom right/50% 50%,
linear-gradient( 135deg, var(--b) 0 calc(var(--top-left,var(--all)) + 5px) ,transparent 0) top left /50% 50%,
linear-gradient(-135deg, var(--b) 0 calc(var(--top-right,var(--all)) + 5px) ,transparent 0) top right /50% 50%,
var(--img,red);
background-origin:border-box;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
-webkit-mask:
linear-gradient( 45deg, transparent 0 var(--bottom-left,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) bottom left,
linear-gradient( -45deg, transparent 0 var(--bottom-right,var(--all)),#fff 0) bottom right,
linear-gradient( 135deg, transparent 0 var(--top-left,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) top left,
linear-gradient(-135deg, transparent 0 var(--top-right,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) top right;
-webkit-mask-size:50.5% 50.5%;
-webkit-mask-repeat:no-repeat;
}
body {
background:grey;
}
<div class="box" style="--top-left:20px"></div>
<div class="box" style="--top-right:20px;--bottom-right:50px;--img:radial-gradient(red,yellow);--b:white;"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:30px;--img:url(https://picsum.photos/id/104/200/200) center/cover;--b:orange;"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:30px;--bottom-right:0px;--img:linear-gradient(red,blue)"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:50%;width:150px;--img:green;--b:red;"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:12%;width:150px;--img:repeating-linear-gradient(45deg,#000 0 10px,#fff 0 20px)"></div>
Let's also add some radius:
.box {
--all:0px;
--b:pink;
width:200px;
height:150px;
display:inline-block;
margin:10px;
filter:url(#round);
}
.box::before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
background:var(--img,red);
-webkit-mask:
linear-gradient( 45deg, transparent 0 var(--bottom-left,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) bottom left,
linear-gradient( -45deg, transparent 0 var(--bottom-right,var(--all)),#fff 0) bottom right,
linear-gradient( 135deg, transparent 0 var(--top-left,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) top left,
linear-gradient(-135deg, transparent 0 var(--top-right,var(--all)) ,#fff 0) top right;
-webkit-mask-size:50.5% 50.5%;
-webkit-mask-repeat:no-repeat;
}
body {
background:grey;
}
<div class="box" style="--top-left:20px"></div>
<div class="box" style="--top-right:20px;--bottom-right:50px;--img:radial-gradient(red,yellow);--b:white;"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:30px;--img:url(https://picsum.photos/id/104/200/200) center/cover;--b:orange;"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:30px;--bottom-right:0px;--img:linear-gradient(red,blue)"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:50%;width:150px;--img:green;--b:red;"></div>
<div class="box" style="--all:12%;width:150px;--img:repeating-linear-gradient(45deg,#000 0 10px,#fff 0 20px)"></div>
<svg style="visibility: hidden; position: absolute;" width="0" height="0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<defs>
<filter id="round">
<feGaussianBlur in="SourceGraphic" stdDeviation="5" result="blur" />
<feColorMatrix in="blur" mode="matrix" values="1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 -9" result="goo" />
<feComposite in="SourceGraphic" in2="goo" operator="atop"/>
</filter>
</defs>
</svg>
This code allows you to cut corners on each side of the rectangle:
div {
display:block;
height: 300px;
width: 200px;
background: url('http://lorempixel.com/180/290/') no-repeat;
background-size:cover;
-webkit-clip-path: polygon(10px 0%, calc(100% - 10px) 0%, 100% 10px, 100% calc(100% - 10px), calc(100% - 10px) 100%, 10px 100%, 0% calc(100% - 10px), 0% 10px);
clip-path: polygon(10px 0%, calc(100% - 10px) 0%, 100% 10px, 100% calc(100% - 10px), calc(100% - 10px) 100%, 10px 100%, 0% calc(100% - 10px), 0% 10px);
}
http://jsfiddle.net/2bZAW/5552/
If you need a diagonal border instead of a diagonal corner, you can stack 2 divs with each a pseudo element:
DEMO
http://codepen.io/remcokalf/pen/BNxLMJ
.container {
padding: 100px 200px;
overflow: hidden;
}
div.diagonal {
background: #da1d00;
color: #fff;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
padding: 70px;
position: relative;
margin: 30px;
float: left;
}
div.diagonal2 {
background: #da1d00;
color: #fff;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
padding: 70px;
position: relative;
margin: 30px;
background: #da1d00 url(http://www.remcokalf.nl/background.jpg) left top;
background-size: cover;
float: left;
}
div.diagonal3 {
background: #da1d00;
color: #da1d00;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: 432px;
height: 432px;
padding: 4px;
position: relative;
margin: 30px;
float: left;
}
div.inside {
background: #fff;
color: #da1d00;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: 292px;
height: 292px;
padding: 70px;
position: relative;
}
div.diagonal:before,
div.diagonal2:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
border-top: 80px solid #fff;
border-right: 80px solid transparent;
width: 0;
}
div.diagonal3:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
border-top: 80px solid #da1d00;
border-right: 80px solid transparent;
width: 0;
z-index: 1;
}
div.inside:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: -4px;
left: -4px;
border-top: 74px solid #fff;
border-right: 74px solid transparent;
width: 0;
z-index: 2;
}
h2 {
font-size: 30px;
line-height: 1.3em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
position: relative;
z-index: 1000;
}
p {
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 1.6em;
margin-bottom: 1.8em;
}
#grey {
width: 100%;
height: 400px;
background: #ccc;
position: relative;
margin-top: 100px;
}
#grey:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
border-top: 80px solid #fff;
border-right: 80px solid #ccc;
width: 400px;
}
<div id="grey"></div>
<div class="container">
<div class="diagonal">
<h2>Header title</h2>
<p>Yes a CSS diagonal corner is possible</p>
</div>
<div class="diagonal2">
<h2>Header title</h2>
<p>Yes a CSS diagonal corner with background image is possible</p>
</div>
<div class="diagonal3">
<div class="inside">
<h2>Header title</h2>
<p>Yes a CSS diagonal border is even possible with an extra div</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
We had the problem of different background colors for our cutted elements. And we only wanted upper right und bottom left corner.
body {
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.3)
}
.box {
position: relative;
display: block;
background: blue;
text-align: center;
color: white;
padding: 15px;
margin: 50px;
}
.box:before,
.box:after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 100%;
border-bottom: 15px solid blue;
border-left: 15px solid transparent;
border-right: 15px solid transparent;
}
.box:before{
border-left: 15px solid blue;
}
.box:after{
border-right: 15px solid blue;
}
.box:after {
bottom: auto;
top: 100%;
border-bottom: none;
border-top: 15px solid blue;
}
/* Active box */
.box.active{
background: white;
color: black;
}
.active:before,
.active:after {
border-bottom: 15px solid white;
}
.active:before{
border-left: 15px solid white;
}
.active:after{
border-right: 15px solid white;
}
.active:after {
border-bottom: none;
border-top: 15px solid white;
}
<div class="box">
Some text goes here. Some text goes here. Some text goes here. Some text goes here.<br/>Some text goes here.<br/>Some text goes here.<br/>Some text goes here.<br/>Some text goes here.<br/>Some text goes here.<br/>
</div>
<div class="box">
Some text goes here.
</div>
<div class="box active">
Some text goes here.
<span class="border-bottom"></span>
</div>
<div class="box">
Some text goes here.
</div>
You can use clip-path, as Stewartside and Sviatoslav Oleksiv mentioned. To make things easy, I created a sass mixin:
#mixin cut-corners ($left-top, $right-top: 0px, $right-bottom: 0px, $left-bottom: 0px) {
clip-path: polygon($left-top 0%, calc(100% - #{$right-top}) 0%, 100% $right-top, 100% calc(100% - #{$right-bottom}), calc(100% - #{$right-bottom}) 100%, $left-bottom 100%, 0% calc(100% - #{$left-bottom}), 0% $left-top);
}
.cut-corners {
#include cut-corners(10px, 0, 25px, 50px);
}
According to Harry's linear-gradient solution (answered Oct 14 '15 at 9:55), it says that opacity background isn't possible, I tried it and yep, it isn't.
But! I found a workaround. No it's not super optimised, but it worked. So here's my solution. Since Harry doesn't use pseudo element, we can achieve this by creating one.
Set position relative to the container and create a pseudo element with the same linear-gradient properties. In other words, just clone it. Then put a transparent background for the container, and lets say a black background for the clone. Put a position absolute on it, a z-index of -1 and an opacity value (ie. 50%). It will do the job. Again it's a workaround and it's not perfect but it works just fine.
.cut-corner {
position: relative;
color: white;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image: linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(to bottom left, transparent calc(50% - 1px), white calc(50% - 1px), white calc(50% + 1px), transparent calc(50% + 1px)), linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), linear-gradient(transparent, transparent);
background-size: 2px 100%, 2px 100%, 100% 2px, 100% 2px, 25px 25px, 100% 100%, 100% 100%;
background-position: 0% 0%, 100% 25px, -25px 0%, 0px 100%, 100% 0%, -25px 0%, 100% 25px;
}
.cut-corner:after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
z-index: -1;
opacity: 0.5;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image: linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(white, white), linear-gradient(to bottom left, transparent calc(50% - 1px), white calc(50% - 1px), white calc(50% + 1px), black calc(50% + 1px)), linear-gradient(black, black), linear-gradient(black, black);
background-size: 2px 100%, 2px 100%, 100% 2px, 100% 2px, 25px 25px, 100% 100%, 100% 100%;
background-position: 0% 0%, 100% 25px, -25px 0%, 0px 100%, 100% 0%, -25px 0%, 100% 25px;
}
/* Just for demo */
div {
padding: 10px;
}
body{
background-image: radial-gradient(circle, #3F9CBA 0%, #153346 100%);
}
<div class="cut-corner">
Some content<br>
Some content<br>
Some content<br>
Some content
</div>
With a small edit to Joseph's code, the element does not require a solid background:
div {
height: 300px;
background: url('http://images2.layoutsparks.com/1/190037/serene-nature-scenery-blue.jpg');
position: relative;
}
div:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0; right: 0;
border-top: 80px solid white;
border-left: 80px solid rgba(0,0,0,0);
width: 0;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/2bZAW/1921/
This use of 'rgba(0,0,0,0)' allows the inner 'corner' to be invisible
.
You can also edit the 4th parameter 'a', where 0 < a < 1, to have a shadow for more of a 'folded-corner' effect:
http://jsfiddle.net/2bZAW/1922/ (with shadow)
NOTE: RGBA color values are supported in IE9+, Firefox 3+, Chrome, Safari, and in Opera 10+.
by small modification of Joshep's code...You can use this code which seems like right corner folded down as per your requirement.
div {
height: 300px;
background: red;
position: relative;
}
div:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0; right: 0;
border-top: 80px solid white;
border-left: 80px solid blue;
width: 0;
}
Another one solution:
html:
<div class="background">
<div class="container">Hello world!</div>
</div>
css:
.background {
position: relative;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
border-right: 150px solid lightgreen;
border-bottom: 150px solid lightgreen;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.background::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border: 25px solid lightgreen;
border-top-color: transparent;
border-left-color: transparent;
}
.container {
position: absolute;
padding-left: 25px;
padding-top: 25px;
font-size: 38px;
font-weight: bolder;
}
https://codepen.io/eggofevil/pen/KYaMjV
I recently cut off the top right corner and overlaid the tabs like folders. Complete code noob, so ignore the shitty code, but I did this by combining a square, a triangle, and a rectangle... This may or may not be a new approach, but hopefully, someone finds it helpful.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/qFMRz.png
Here is the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang ="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="folders">
<div class="container">
<div class="triangleOne">
<p class="folderNames">Home</p>
</div>
<div class="triangleOneCut">
</div>
<div class="triangleOneFill">
</div>
</div>
<div class="container2">
<div class="triangleOne blue">
<p class="folderNames">About</p>
</div>
<div class="triangleOneCut blueCut">
</div>
<div class="triangleOneFill blue">
</div>
</div>
<div class="container3">
<div class="triangleOne green">
<p class="folderNames">Contact</p>
</div>
<div class="triangleOneCut greenCut">
</div>
<div class="triangleOneFill green">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Here is the CSS:
.triangleOne {
height: 50px;
width: 40px;
background: red;
border-radius: 5px 0px 0px 5px;
position: absolute;
}
.triangleOneCut {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 40px;
border-top: 10px solid transparent;
border-left: 10px solid red;
width: 0;
}
.triangleOneFill {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 10px; left: 40px;
width: 10px;
height: 40px;
background-color: red;
border-radius: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
}
.container {
position: relative;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
display: inline-block;
z-index: 3;
}
.container2 {
position: relative;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
display: inline-block;
left: -10px;
z-index: 2;
}
.container3 {
position: relative;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
display: inline-block;
left: -20px;
z-index: 1;
}
.blue {
background-color: blue;
}
.green {
background-color: green;
}
.blueCut {
border-left: 10px solid blue;
}
.greenCut {
border-left: 10px solid green;
}
.folders {
width: 160px;
height: 50px;
/* border: 10px solid white; */
margin: auto;
padding-left: 25px;
margin-top: 100px;
}
.folderNames {
text-align: right;
padding-left: 2px;
color: white;
margin-top: 1.5px;
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 6.5px;
border-bottom: double 1.5px white;
}
Here's a solution for if you don't want a solid-color background, i.e. just a border with square-cut corners.
.container {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid black;
position: relative;
}
.border {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.border:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
border-top: 15px solid white;
border-left: 15px solid white;
width: 0;
}
.border:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
width: 16px;
height: 1px;
background: black;
}
.tl:before { top: -5px; left: -5px; transform: rotate(-45deg); }
.tl:after { top: 5px; left: -3px; transform: rotate(-45deg);}
.tr:before { top: -5px; right: -5px; transform: rotate(45deg); }
.tr:after { top: 5px; right: -3px; transform: rotate(45deg); }
.bl:before { bottom: -5px; left: -5px; transform: rotate(45deg); }
.bl:after { bottom: 5px; left: -3px; transform: rotate(45deg); }
.br:before { bottom: -5px; right: -5px; transform: rotate(-45deg); }
.br:after { bottom: 5px; right: -3px; transform: rotate(-45deg); }
<html>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="border tl"></div>
<div class="border tr"></div>
<div class="border bl"></div>
<div class="border br"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Is there way to create inset border radius with css3? (Without images)
I need a border radius like this:
The best way I've found to achieve this with all CSS and HTML (no images, etc.) is by using CSS3 gradients, per Lea Verou. From her solution:
div.round {
background:
-moz-radial-gradient(0 100%, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-moz-radial-gradient(100% 100%, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-moz-radial-gradient(100% 0, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-moz-radial-gradient(0 0, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px);
background:
-o-radial-gradient(0 100%, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-o-radial-gradient(100% 100%, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-o-radial-gradient(100% 0, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-o-radial-gradient(0 0, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px);
background:
-webkit-radial-gradient(0 100%, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-webkit-radial-gradient(100% 100%, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-webkit-radial-gradient(100% 0, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px),
-webkit-radial-gradient(0 0, circle, rgba(204,0,0,0) 14px, #c00 15px);
background-position: bottom left, bottom right, top right, top left;
-moz-background-size: 50% 50%;
-webkit-background-size: 50% 50%;
background-size: 50% 50%;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
The net result is a set of transparent gradients with curves. See the full JSFiddle for a demo and to play around with the way it looks.
Obviously this depends on support for rgba and gradient, and accordingly should be treated as a progressive enhancement, or if it's essential to the design, you should supply an image-based fallback for older browsers (especially IE, which doesn't support gradient even up through IE9).
You can achieve this by absolutely positioning transparent circle elements in the corners with box shadows. I used a combination of hidden overflowed divs containing spans, box shadows, borders, and pseudo selectors.
Check out my example.
This is the basic HTML and CSS you need to get started:
a {
display: inline-block;
width: 250px;
height: 100px;
background: #ccc;
border: 2px solid #000;
position: relative;
margin: 10px;
}
a div {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
overflow: hidden;
width: 15px;
height: 100%;
}
a div:after {
content: '';
background: #000;
width: 2px;
height: 75px;
position: absolute;
top: 12.5px;
}
a div:first-of-type {
left: -14px;
}
a div:first-of-type:after {
left: 0;
}
a div:last-of-type {
right: -14px;
}
a div:last-of-type:after {
right: 0;
}
a span {
display: block;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
background: transparent;
position: absolute;
bottom: -20px;
right: -20px;
border: 2px solid #000;
border-radius: 25px;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 60px #ccc;
}
a div:first-of-type span {
left: -20px;
}
a div:first-of-type span:first-child {
top: -20px;
}
a div:first-of-type span:last-child {
bottom: -20px;
}
a div:last-of-type span {
right: -20px;
}
a div:last-of-type span:first-child {
top: -20px;
}
a div:last-of-type span:last-child {
bottom: -20px;
}
<a href="">
<div>
<span></span>
<span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span></span>
<span></span>
</div>
</a>
I don't think that it would be possible if the corners have to be transparent, however if the background is known, you can create a div in each corner with a rounded border. If those divs are then given the same background color as the page background the effect will work.
See my example here http://jsfiddle.net/TdDtX/
#box {
position: relative;
margin: 30px;
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
background: #ccc;
border: 1px solid #333;
}
.corner {
position: absolute;
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
border: 1px solid #333;
background-color: #fff;
}
.top-left {
top: -1px;
left: -1px;
border-radius: 0 0 100% 0;
border-width: 0 1px 1px 0;
}
.top-right {
top: -1px;
left: 190px;
border-radius: 0 0 0 100%;
border-width: 0 0 1px 1px;
}
.bottom-left {
top: 90px;
left: -1px;
border-radius: 0 100% 0 0;
border-width: 1px 1px 0 0;
}
.bottom-right {
top: 90px;
left: 190px;
border-radius: 100% 0 0 0;
border-width: 1px 0 0 1px;
}
<div id="box">
<div class="corner top-left"></div>
<div class="corner top-right"></div>
<div class="corner bottom-left"></div>
<div class="corner bottom-right"></div>
</div>
You could achieve this effect with the new css3-Border-images (well, it's images, but it scales without problems). But this is quite new and not very widely supported yet (well in all decent browsers (with prefixes) except IE to be precise;) ).
A nice article about border images on csstricks.
Browser Support
It doesn't look like that's possible. I tried a border-radius with a negative value just to see what would happen but it had no effect.
Edit:
Even if you break the box down into smaller parts, at some point you'd still have to create a transparent inset corner. The transparency is the tricky part that might prevent this from being possible without images. Basically, you'd have to be able to render a transparent circle with a non-transparent surrounding bg (and if that's possible in CSS, I'd love to know how :)
If you don't need transparency, there are ways to do it.
body {
background: #fff;
}
.div{
position:relative;
}
.box {
background: #f7f7f7;
height: 178px;
width: 409px;
margin: 25px;
/*padding: 20px;*/
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-left: 0px;
}
.box:before {
content: "";
display: block;
background: #fff;
position: absolute;
top: -33px;
left: -263px;
width: 300px;
height: 242px;
border-radius: 300px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
<div class="div">
<div class="box"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Example here
Hmm you could possibly make use of this little trick here to create Inset Border Radius
Then to support transparency you would have to probably add other blocks in between. More or less like the way the old rounded images used to be done; having a span for every corner with the transparent image. And spans on the sides and the top to fill up the empty space. Instead of using images you could use this trick to do it in CSS.
body {
background: #fff;
}
.div{
position:relative;
}
.box {
background: #f7f7f7;
height: 178px;
width: 409px;
margin: 25px;
/*padding: 20px;*/
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-left: 0px;
}
.box:before {
content: "";
display: block;
background: #fff;
position: absolute;
top: -33px;
left: -263px;
width: 300px;
height: 242px;
border-radius: 300px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
<div class="div">
<div class="box"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Any way to declare a size/partial border to a box in CSS? For example a box with 350px that only shows a border-bottom in its firsts 60px. I think that might be very useful.
Examples:
Not really. But it's very easy to achieve the effect in a way that degrades gracefully and requires no superfluous markup:
div {
width: 350px;
height: 100px;
background: lightgray;
position: relative;
margin: 20px;
}
div:after {
content: '';
width: 60px;
height: 4px;
background: gray;
position: absolute;
bottom: -4px;
}
<div></div>
I know, this is already solved and pixels were requested. However, I just wanted to share something...
Partly underlined text elements can easily achieved by using display:table or display:inline-block
(I just don't use display:inline-block because, yeah you know, the awkward 4px-gap).
Textual Elements
h1 {
border-bottom: 1px solid #f00;
display: table;
}
<h1>Foo is not equal to bar</h1>
Centering, display:table makes it impossible to center the element with text-align:center.
Let's work around with margin:auto...
h1 {
border-bottom: 1px solid #f00;
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
<h1>Foo is not equal to bar</h1>
Well, that's nice, but it's not partially.
As bookcasey already introduced, pseudo-elements are worth gold.
h1 {
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
h1:after {
border-bottom: 1px solid #f00;
content: '';
display: block;
width: 50%;
}
<h1>Foo is not equal to bar</h1>
Offset, the underline is left aligned right now. To center it, just push the pseudo-element the half of its width (50% / 2 = 25%) to the right.
h1 {
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
h1:after {
border-bottom: 1px solid #f00;
content: '';
display: block;
margin-left: 25%;
width: 50%;
}
<h1>Foo is not equal to bar</h1>
...as davidmatas commented, using margin:auto is sometimes more practical, than calculating the margin-offset by hand.
So, we can align the underline to the left, right or center (without knowing the current width) by using one of these combinations:
Left: margin-right: auto (or just leave it off)
Middle: margin: auto
Right: margin-left: auto
Full example
.underline {
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.underline:after {
border-bottom: 1px solid #f00;
content: '';
display: block;
width: 50%;
}
.underline--left:after {
margin-right: auto; /* ...or just leave it off */
}
.underline--center:after {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.underline--right:after {
margin-left: auto
}
<h1 class="underline underline--left">Foo is not equal to bar</h1>
<h1 class="underline underline--center">Foo is not equal to bar</h1>
<h1 class="underline underline--right">Foo is not equal to bar</h1>
Block-Level Elements
This can easily be adopted, so that we can use block-level elements. The trick is to set the pseudo-elements height to the same height as its real element (simply height:100%):
div {
background-color: #eee;
display: table;
height: 100px;
width: 350px;
}
div:after {
border-bottom: 3px solid #666;
content: '';
display: block;
height: 100%;
width: 60px;
}
<div></div>
Here is another solution that rely on linear-gradient where you can easily create any kind of line you want. You can also have multiple lines (on each side for example) by using multiple background:
.box1 {
width: 200px;
padding: 20px;
margin: 10px auto;
text-align: center;
background:
linear-gradient(to right, transparent 20%, #000 20%, #000 40%, transparent 40%) 0 100% / 100% 3px no-repeat,
#ccc
}
.box2 {
width: 200px;
padding: 20px;
margin: 10px auto;
text-align: center;
background:
linear-gradient(to right, transparent 20%, red 20%, red 80%, transparent 80%) 0 100% / 100% 2px no-repeat,
#ccc
}
.box3{
width: 200px;
padding: 20px;
margin: 10px auto;
text-align: center;
background:
linear-gradient(to right, transparent 20%, red 20%, red 80%, transparent 80%) 0 100% / 100% 2px no-repeat,
linear-gradient(to right, transparent 30%, blue 30%, blue 70%, transparent 70%) 0 0 / 100% 2px no-repeat,
linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent 30%, brown 30%, brown 70%, transparent 70%) 0 0 / 3px 100% no-repeat,
linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent 20%, orange 20%, orange 70%, transparent 70%) 100% 0 / 3px 100% no-repeat,
#ccc
}
<div class="box1">
Box1
</div>
<div class="box2">
Box2
</div>
<div class="box3">
Box3
</div>
Here is another syntax to achieve the same as above:
.box1 {
width: 200px;
padding: 20px;
margin: 10px auto;
text-align: center;
background:
linear-gradient(#000 0 0) top /40% 3px no-repeat,
#ccc
}
.box2 {
width: 200px;
padding: 20px;
margin: 10px auto;
text-align: center;
background:
linear-gradient(red 0 0) bottom/ 60% 2px no-repeat,
#ccc;
}
.box3{
width: 200px;
padding: 20px;
margin: 10px auto;
text-align: center;
background:
linear-gradient(red 0 0)bottom left/ 60% 2px,
linear-gradient(blue 0 0) 60% 0 / 40% 2px,
linear-gradient(brown 0 0) left/ 3px 30%,
linear-gradient(orange 0 0) right / 3px 40%,
#ccc;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
<div class="box1">
Box1
</div>
<div class="box2">
Box2
</div>
<div class="box3">
Box3
</div>
I used a grid to build draw some of the borders.
See here.
Code:
/* ungrid without mobile */
.row {
width: 100%;
display: table;
table-layout: fixed;
}
.col {
display: table-cell;
}
/* things to change */
.row {
width: 70%;
margin: auto;
}
.mid.row>.col {
height: 150px;
}
/* draw box and align text */
.col {
text-align: center;
}
.top.left.col {
border-top: 1px solid black;
border-left: 1px solid black;
}
.top.right.col {
border-top: 1px solid black;
border-right: 1px solid black;
}
.bottom.left.col {
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
border-left: 1px solid black;
}
.bottom.right.col {
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
border-right: 1px solid black;
}
.mid.row>.col {
border-left: 1px solid black;
border-right: 1px solid black;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.top.center.col {
position: relative;
top: -0.5em;
}
.bottom.center.col {
position: relative;
bottom: -0.5em;
}
<div class="row">
<div class="top left col"></div>
<div class="top center col">Top</div>
<div class="top right col"></div>
</div>
<div class="mid row">
<div class="col">Mid</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="bottom left col"></div>
<div class="bottom center col">Bottom</div>
<div class="bottom right col"></div>
</div>
CSS does not support partial borders. You'd need to use an adjacent element to simulate this.
Been playing a bit around with your solutions and came up with that.
I'd appreciate your comments and thoughts.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>test file</title>
<style>
#box {
background-color: gray;
position: relative;
left: 10px;
top: 10px;
height: 180px;
width: 380px;
}
#grad1 {
position: absolute;
left: -10px;
top: -10px;
height: 40px;
width: 2px;
background-image: linear-gradient(red, red);
}
#grad2 {
position: absolute;
left: -10px;
top: -10px;
height: 2px;
width: 40px;
background-image: linear-gradient(red, red);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="box">
<div id="grad1"></div>
<div id="grad2"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>