Make smooth angle line between two borders - css

I obtain jagged (pixeled) line when I am trying to create angle between two borders.
Please, consider the following code:
<div id="example"></div>
#example:before{
content: "";
position: relative;
width: 0;
height: 0;
left: 0;
bottom: -40px;
border-top: 20px solid black;
border-left: 470px solid red;
}
Here is a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pan1cmode/bQYU7/2/
Any suggestions on how make it smooth?

Actually, what you want is called anti-aliasing, as Layne commented.
One way to get that, somehow, is using gradients.
demo
#Ex2 {
position: absolute;
height: 40px;
width: 470px;
top: 80px;
background: linear-gradient(3deg, red 39px, black 42px);
}
You can adjust the degree of smoothing by the difference between the red and the black stop. (in this case, between 39 and 42 px )

actually it is stretching because border-left value is value is very higher if you use equal values than you will solve this problem
http://jsfiddle.net/bQYU7/3/

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How to create shape with a wavy edge

I need to make custom shape(see image attached) on Dreamweaver and found the code below for reference. I'm not sure which values to change in the reference code to achieve my custom shapes. I don't know which values to change: top, left, width, or height to suit my custom shape. My max width of the shape is 1832px. Max height of wave is 179px. Lesser wave height is 113px. Please help.
Reference:
http://jsfiddle.net/7fjSc/9/
#wave {
position: relative;
height: 70px;
width: 600px;
background: #e0efe3;
}
#wave:before {
content: "";
display: block;
position: absolute;
border-radius: 100% 50%;
width: 340px;
height: 80px;
background-color: white;
right: -5px;
top: 40px;
}
#wave:after {
content: "";
display: block;
position: absolute;
border-radius: 100% 50%;
width: 300px;
height: 70px;
background-color: #e0efe3;
left: 0;
top: 27px;
}
<div id="wave"></div>
You can see from this link:
http://jsfiddle.net/7fjSc/1248/
#wave:before
and
#wave:after
refer to two elliptical circles that are positioned over a rectangle. The left ellipsis is the same color as the rectangle (#e0efe3) while the ellipsis to the right is the same color as the background (white). This is a common technique with CSS to make rounded objects. Your example places smaller circles over a large rectangle, but to achieve the shape you want, you will have to place larger circles over a smaller rectangle (this will give you the curved shape on the left side). To achieve elliptical circles, change the border-radius attribute. Manipulation of these attributes should allow you to obtain the shape you need. Good luck!

Control which border position sets the corner pixels in CSS

Imagine the following CSS:
#foo {
border: 1px solid black;
border-right: 1px solid blue;
}
In this case, at least under Chrome, the top and bottom right corner pixels of the element are blue, not black. Is it possible to make them black?
You can't do it with the normal CSS border options, but if you want to, you can still have a pure CSS solution:
Basically, what you are going to do is create two pseudo elements with CSS, and cover the corners:
#foo {
border: 100px solid black;
border-right: 100px solid blue;
height:300px;
position:relative;
}
#foo:after, #foo:before{
content:'';
background:black;
width:100px;
height:100px;
display:block;
position:absolute;
}
#foo:after{
bottom:-100px;
right:-100px;
}
#foo:before{
top:-100px;
right:-100px;
}
It might be a little messy, but it works. Set the :after and :before elements width height and position to the width of the border.
And that gives this effect:
JSFiddle Demo
I hope my crappy photoshop skills explain borders to you.
If you look in the 4 corners of the square you can see little lines, thats where one border starts and the next one begins.
This will always be in issue :P
You could either make it a background image (crappy way)
or you can use other divs to make the borders (crappy as well)
The first solution would be using a pseudo-element, which you will position absolutely to cover the right border. In order to ensure that it covers the border entirely, you will have to offset its top, bottom and right positions by the negative value of the border width. In this case I have used a width of 5px to better illustrate the example:
#foo {
background-color: #eee;
border: 5px solid grey;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
position: relative;
}
#foo::before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: -5px;
bottom: -5px;
right: -5px; /* move by border width */
background-color: blue;
width: 5px;
}
<div id="foo"></div>
Alternatively, you can use CSS box shadow:
#foo {
background-color: #eee;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 5px grey;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
position: relative;
}
#foo::before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
width: 5px;
background-color: blue;
}
<div id="foo"></div>
As others have pointed out, your problem is how borders are drawn in CSS.
<div id="foo">Problem</div>
#foo {
border: 30px solid black;
border-right: 30px solid blue;
}
The simplest way to work around this is to use a pseudo element. Since this workaround is entirely dependent on the value of the border-width, I’ll show an example using an SCSS variable to help make it clear where that width value is coming in.
Note: You don’t need SCSS to solve this problem, using a variable just helps readability/maintainability.
HTML:
<div id="foo"></div>
SCSS:
/* Set SCSS variable */
$border-width: 30px;
#foo {
border: $border-width solid black;
position: relative; /* anchor the absolute positioned ::after element */
}
#foo:after {
content: '';
background: blue;
width: $border-width;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
right: -$border-width;
}
Demo: http://jsbin.com/cimaxe/6
Hopefully it’s clear that everywhere you see $border-width you can replace it with a value like 30px.

How to place something in a triangle-shaped box?

I found various examples of how to create triangles using CSS (like this one); all of them are based on creating a 0-sized box and fiddling with borders to create the triangle shape. Ok, very nice.
But how can I actually place something inside such a triangle?
You can use positioning techniques to place some content over the triangle and not under the triangle..
I emphasized over and under because using positioning am positioning the text over the triangle, so triangle element isn't the parent of the content, as to create triangles we use height: 0; and width: 0; so you need to overlay the text.
Just make sure you use position: relative; for parent element holding absolute positioned element.
Didn't used z-index but you can use that to play safe with the stacking order.
Demo
<div class="wrap">
<div class="triangle"></div>
<span>Hello</span>
</div>
div.wrap {
position: relative;
}
div.triangle {
height: 0;
width: 0;
border: 50px solid #f00;
border-top-color: transparent;
border-left-color: transparent;
border-right-color: transparent;
}
div span {
position: absolute;
left: 35px;
bottom: 0;
}
This way can be sloppy but it would work for a basic situation.
http://jsfiddle.net/Yc5nF/1/
<div class="arrow-right">
<p>Foobar</p>
</div>
.arrow-right {
position: relative;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 150px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 150px solid green;
border-right: 150px solid transparent;
}
.arrow-right p {
position: absolute;
top: 70px;
left: -20px;
}

Positioning and resizing a CSS split-colored triangle to desired position and proportions

Through help on stackoverflow I've been able to generate and position a CSS triangle in the correct position on my website, I've also learnt how to color a triangle in 2 equal halves.
But I am stuck on merging the two examples together, what I've tried I don't think is worth pasting here due to the mess I've made of it.
I am trying to get a triangle that has the proportions and sits at the bottom of the div like this fiddle example and then is split in 2 colors like this fiddle example.
Where I believe I am going wrong is that in the different fiddles there are different uses of:
:before
Well..., Here is my attempt to achieve this effect (proportions + split in 2 colors):
JSFiddle Demo.
In this demo, I added the triangle to the .bottom div and positioned that to stay at the top (with a negative value).
Then added margin-top: 1%; property to move the triangle when resizing the window:
HTML
<div class="top"></div>
<div class="bottom">
<div class="triangle"></div>
</div>
CSS:
.top {
/* other styles... */
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
}
.bottom {
background: lightGreen;
height: 100px;
position: relative;
z-index: 1; /* A lower z-index value than .top */
/* Or use overflow: hidden; instead */
}
.triangle {
width: 40px;
height: 20px;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: -20px;
margin: auto;
margin-top: 1%; /* Move the triangle when resizing the window */
z-index: 1;
}
.triangle:before {
content: " ";
position: absolute;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 0 20px 20px 0;
border-color: transparent blue transparent transparent;
}
.triangle:after {
content: " ";
position: absolute;
left: 20px;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 20px 20px 0 0;
border-color: red transparent transparent transparent;
}

How to change content flow?

In this jsfiddle, I'm trying to create a bookmark shape. There is only one triangle which needs to change its positioning.
<div id = "bookmark">
<div id = "rectangle"></div>
<div id = "triangle-topleft"></div>
<div id = "triangle-topright"></div>
</div>
I could easily use relative positioning and shift it, but I don't want to do it this way. I want a more malleable solution.
Instead of the shapes flowing from top to bottom. I want the last shape to flow left to right. So there are 3 shapes, the first two are in the perfect place, but the third one needs to be placed to the right of the second shape, instead of underneath it.
What CSS can I use to do this?
Add float:left; to #triangle-topleft and margin-left:100px; to #triangle-topright
#triangle-topleft {
position: static;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-top: 100px solid black;
border-right: 100px solid transparent;
float:left;
}
#triangle-topright {
position: relative;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-top: 100px solid black;
border-left: 100px solid transparent;
margin-left:100px;
}
jsFiddle example
First of all you do not have to declare position: static; as it is already static by default (Unless you are using responsive design where you need to reset the property value at certain point of resolution), secondly, assign position: relative; to your #bookmark and make the second triangle position: absolute;
Demo
#bookmark{
width: 200px;
position: relative;
}
#rectangle {
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
background: black;
}
#triangle-topleft {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-top: 100px solid black;
border-right: 100px solid transparent;
}
#triangle-topright {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-top: 100px solid black;
border-left: 100px solid transparent;
bottom: 0;
}
Note: Make sure you do not make your first triangle position: absolute; else you need to reposition the triangles. But this is the best method you can get, as you've wrapped absolute inside a relative container.
You can also take a look at this awesome thing - Font Awesome - Bookmark, you can resize this to whatever size you want to.
The thing you are trying can be also achieved by using :before and :after pseudo along with content property. So you can get rid of the extra triangle elements.
As I said, you can create this thing with a single element.
#bookmark{
width: 200px;
position: relative;
height: 300px;
background: black;
}
#bookmark:before {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-top: 100px solid black;
border-right: 100px solid transparent;
display: block;
content: "";
position: absolute;
bottom: -100px;
}
#bookmark:after {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-top: 100px solid black;
border-left: 100px solid transparent;
bottom: -100px;
display: block;
content: "";
}
Here, am using :before and :after pseudo, with display: block; and content: ""; which are essential to get this thing work, also am positioning both the elements using absolute with a value set to -100
Demo (Using single element)
Note: :before and :after pseudo can fail in older versions of IE,
but you can always use polyfills to use CSS 3 properties, also, for
more information on browser support, you can check this out.
You can just add float: left to #triangle-topleft and margin-left: 100px to #triangle-topright.
To remove unnecessary markup, you could also use :before and :after pseudo-elements instead of #triangle-*.
Add display:inline-block to both triangle shapes. They're stacking because they are defaulting to display:block.
It suffices to just add float:left to #triangle-topleft and #triangle-topright.
See the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/nfxYE/

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