Rigid edges on video with CSS3 transform in Chrome - css

I am applying a subtle CSS3 transform to a HTML5 video element, but I am getting unpleasantly rigid edges at the sides of the video in Chrome.
http://cl.ly/image/0v0m421N1J1U/Screen%20Shot%202012-07-16%20at%2021.57.37.png
I've looked around the internet for solutions. Some people have suggested adding a white border or box shadow to mask the edges, but I've found no luck. I've also tried setting the -webkit-backface-visibility property to hidden. Are there any other possible workarounds?

I played around with this a bit and I could could come up with a solution:
.wrapper {
-webkit-transform: rotate(30deg) translate(100px,100px);
position: relative;
float: left
}
.wrapper:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
display: block;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px #fff, 0 0 0 1px #fff;
}
video {
display: block;
}
​
It's just a pseudo-element on top of the video which has two box-shadows, one inset the and other outset. This solution will only work if your background has a solid color.
http://jsfiddle.net/5SuGb/
​

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Backdrop-filter: Blur not working on a position absolute element

I'm trying to make a tooltip with a glass effect using the backdrop-filter: blur, except that the filter doesn't seem to work on elements in absolute position.
I imagine this is because the item has gone out of the document flow so don't recognize the background, but there might be workarounds to fix it.
image: the filter does not act on elements in absolute position
I found out that elements with transparent background get incorrectly blurred. I wonder if the parent of this element is one that has transparent background.
In my case I had my body transparent which made blur not work, and solved it with:
body {
background-color: white;
}
I can give you a sample which was given by a user in stack overflow. I have given the sample code below Hope it helps:
CSS:
body,
main::before {
background: url(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/80625/tree.jpg) 0 / cover fixed;
}
main {
margin: 100px auto;
position: relative;
padding: 10px 5px;
background: hsla(0, 0%, 100%, .3);
font-size: 20px;
font-family: 'Lora', serif;
line-height: 1.5;
border-radius: 10px;
width: 60%;
box-shadow: 5px 3px 30px black;
overflow: hidden;
}
main::before {
content: '';
margin: -35px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
filter: blur(20px);
z-index: -1;
}
HTML:
<main>
<blockquote>"The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds -
even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less."
<footer>—
<cite>
Joseph B. Wirthlin
</cite>
</footer>
</blockquote>
</main>

Angled Border using skew with Box Shadow - FF issue

Trying to add an angled border to my header and then also adding a box shadow around the angled border.
Seems to work fine but on Firefox there is some white background showing around the box shadow.
Code is as follow
header {
background: #41ade5;
color: #fff;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
padding: 45px;
}
header:after {
background: inherit;
bottom: 0;
content: '';
display: block;
height: 50%;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
transform: skewY(-1.5deg);
transform-origin: 100%;
z-index: -1;
box-shadow: 0px 4px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5)
}
body {
margin:0;
}
http://codepen.io/velnias2015/pen/KaBzrq
Looks fine on all other browsers, is there a fix for firefox ?
Add translateZ(1px) to fix the antialiasing issue with the transform.
transform: translateZ(1px) skewY(-1.5deg);
Render issues with transforms are common and modifying 3d transform properties are often the best way to fix them because it causes the browser to render using different methods. Other common fixes in this same vein but don't seem to apply here are: backface-visibility: hidden and perspective: 1px.

Why doesn't inset box-shadow work over images?

I have a container that uses inset box shadow. The container contains images and text. The inset shadow apparently does not work on images:
The white section here is the container. It contains a white image, and there is inset box shadow applied to it.
body {
background-color: #000000;
}
main {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
width: 90%;
height: 90%;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
box-shadow: inset 3px 3px 10px 0 #000000;
}
<main>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Solid_white.png">
</main>
Is there a way to make the inset box shadow overlap images?
Just to chime in on this, because I was just creating something similar...
I hate polluting my markup with extra elements for the sake of styling, so the CSS solution is to use the :after pseudo element:
main::after {
box-shadow: inset 3px 3px 10px 0 #000000;
content: '';
display: block;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
}
<main>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Solid_white.png">
</main>
It's probably too late for what you were trying to do, but is the better solution in my estimation.
Because the shadow is part of the parent container it renders below the image. One alternative is to have a div which places a shadow overtop the image like so:
body {
background-color: #BBB;
}
main {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
width: 90%;
height: 90%;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border-radius: 20px;
}
main img {
border-radius: 20px;
}
.shadow {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
box-shadow: inset 3px 3px 10px 0 #000000;
border-radius: 20px;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
<main>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Solid_white.png" />
<div class="shadow"></div>
</main>
Edit: I've updated the fiddle to include border radius on the shadow and on the img which solves the issue identified in the comments.
The reason it's not overlapping is because the image is inside the div, so the image is on top of it. The image is higher (closer to the user) than the div.
You can change the image to use position: relative; z-index: -1, and have the containing div use a border instead of setting background color on the body. You'll need to use box-sizing: border-box to include the border in the width of the div.
DEMO
body {
background-color: #FFF;
}
main {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
border: 60px solid black;
box-shadow: inset 3px 3px 10px 0 #000000;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
img {
z-index:-1;
position: relative;
}
For those, who're using absolute-positioned, full-size :before/:after pseudo elements, consider using pointer-events: none on the pseudo-element so the original elements remain clickable.
The best way to achieve this in 2020 would be to use mix blend mode on the image. use the box-shadow on the parent element of the img and use mix-blend-mode: multiply.
You could set the image as the div's background instead:
background-image:url(http://www.placehold.it/500x500)
jsFiddle example
https://stackoverflow.com/a/21415060/6235358
that's a great way to do it but we can do it in a better way using the ::after pseudo-class so you'll not have to add an empty <div> to your HTML
As Rilus mentioned we could use a pseudo class. Unfortunately this does not seem to work on an img tag for some reason however we can use a combination of inner and outer containers to achieve the affect we need.
.outer:hover .inner:after {
position: absolute;
content: '';
color: white;
display:block;
bottom: -0px;
right: -0px;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 11;
border: solid 10px red;
}
http://jsbin.com/kabiwidego/1/
not sure about ie 10 though as it seems to handle pseudo classes that are absolutely positioned slightly differently to most browsers.
One simple fix if you are clever with your decimals is to store your content in a separate div which you then select and implement a certain number of pixels from the top.
For example, let's say your header has a height of 50px. You could begin your #content div id 53.45px from the top (or whatever height your drop shadow is) and then your shadow would appear above the images.
One issue with this is that if you are using a rather transparent shadow, the more transarent it is the more tacky it may look by implementing this css.
In practice the code would be as follows:
HTML:
<header>
Whatever's in your header
</header>
<div id="content>
Page content
</div>
CSS:
header {
height: 50px;
box-shadow: 0 5px 5px rgba(0,0,0,1);
}
#content {
top: 55px;
}
Even if i'm late for the party, I had the same issue these days and worked on a solution. For me, the best solution (mobile friendly) is this one:
JSFiddle:
.image-inset-container {
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
.image-inset-shadow {
position: relative;
}
.image-inset-shadow img {
border-radius: 20px;
}
.image-shadow {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
box-shadow: inset 3px 3px 10px 0 #000;
border-radius: 20px;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
<body>
<h4>Reimagined Web Design</h4>
<p>With your input and business goals in mind, we bring your brand to life through custom human-facing graphics and
visual elements targeted toward your audience for good user experience and created in future-forward technology,
guaranteeing a successful new web design.</p>
<div class="image-inset-container">
<div class="image-inset-shadow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Solid_white.png" alt="img1" />
<div class="image-shadow"></div>
</div>
</div>
<p>We initiate a collaborative process where your team is involved in every step to create a frictionless and
delightful
experience for your customers. Our designers immerse themselves in your industry and your brand aesthetic to
deliver
a website that represents your business while achieving your goals for a connected future.</p>
</body>

PNG shadow with fluid height

Due to browser performance implications I can't use box-shadow CSS property because I have many similarly looking elements on my page that should have same looking style including shadow. That's the reason I would like to implement shadows using traditional PNG imagery.
Facts
My elements have predefined and more importantly fixed pixel width
They have fluid height (auto) depending on their content
They have content directly in the element and some child elements will be positioned outside their border
CSS3 can be used but performance-critical parts (gradients, shadows...) should be avoided
CSS pseudo elements can be used without limitation
Requirements
There should be no additional wrapper element added in order to have fluid shadow
Application should run smoothly on mobile browsers - shadows seem to slow down performance significantly on mobile devices since their processing power is much lower than desktop computers.
Possible direction
I thought of using :before and :after pseudos to display top-to-bottom and bottom shadows on the containing element, but these pseudos display within their parent element and positioning parent z-index higher than these children has no effect.
Visual demo of end result
This JSFiddle Demo in pure CSS3 that I would like to achieve but using PNG shadows. In reality there are numerous of these boxes so you can imagine mobile browsers are struggling with all these shadows.
Item is one such box (see blow) that needs PNG shadow. Left menu is child element positioned outside of the box.
Display in Chrome
HTML
<div class="item">
<menu>
<li>Yes</li>
<li>No</li>
<li>Maybe</li>
</menu>
<div class="content">
Some content
</div>
</div>
CSS3 LESS
.item {
position: relative;
width: 300px;
background-color: #fff;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px #ccc;
margin: 20px 20px 20px calc(20px + 3.5em);
min-height: 5em;
&:first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}
&:after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 10px;
height: 5em;
background-color: #fff;
}
menu {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: -3.5em;
width: 3.5em;
margin: 0;
border: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
background-color: #fff;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px #ccc;
li a {
display: block;
text-align: center;
padding: 2px 0;
}
}
.content {
padding: .75em 1em;
}
}
Probably I am missing something, but looks like you want something in this way:
demo
The CSS is
.base {
width: 300px;
height: 150px;
font-size: 100px;
font-weight: bolder;
background-color: lightgreen;
position: relative;
z-index: auto;
}
.base:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
left: 30px;
background-color: green;
z-index: -1;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.child {
position: absolute;
left: 150px;
top: 50px;
border: solid 1px black;
color: red;
}
And just change the background of the :after to your image.
I have applied this solution to your fiddle.
The relevant CSS is for the before pseudo element:
.item:before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
top: -10px;
left: -10px;
right: -10px;
bottom: -10px;
z-index: -1;
background-image: url(http://placekitten.com/100/100);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: 100% 100%;
}
I have used a kitten picture, that is being scaled to cover all the needed size. Just change that to whatever you want.
I needed to do it that way because I had onky a pseudo element available.
The key for that to work (and where you probably had the difficulty) is to add z-index: auto to .item
Updated demo
Well, I had said that it wasn't posible, but I have find a way.
The standard technique would be to use 2 elements, just to avoid stretching the image (as you said). The problem is that we only have 1 pseudo element available.
The solution then would be to use 1 pseudo element, but with 2 backgrounds, to solve the issue.
CSS (only relevant part)
.item:before {
background-image: url(http://placekitten.com/320/10), url(http://placekitten.com/320/500);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: 100% 9px, 100% calc(100% - 9px);
background-position: left bottom, left top;
}
We will need an image (the first one) only 10 px in height, to cover the bottom shadow. And another one, with enough height to cover the maximumitem posible, and that will be used for the remaining part of the shadow. The dark part is that we need now a calc() height, with limited support. (anyway, better than border image)
demo 3

CSS3 filters as a mask

It's possible to use css3 filters as a mask?
For instance, i want to blur only 30% of a div from the top. How can i do it?
I create a little jsfiddle to illustrate what i'm trying to achive: http://jsfiddle.net/uxCXa/2/
I would use a pseudo-element to achieve that and adding a box-shadow to fake WebKit's blur filter.
.container {
position: relative;
width: 200px;
}
.container:after {
position: absolute;
top: 15%;
bottom: 15%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
background: rgba(100,100,100,0.3);
box-shadow: 0 0 3px 0 rgba(100,100,100,0.3);
z-index: 2;
content: "";
}
top and bottom need to be the half of that 30% you want.

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