CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? | IO 9elements

This is a repost promoting content originally published elsewhere. See more things Dan's reposted.

TL/DR: When you use eight values specifying border-radius in CSS, you can create organic looking shapes. WOW. No time to read it all ?— we made a visual tool for you. Find it here.

Border Radius tool

Introduction

During this year’s Frontend Conference Zurich Rachel Andrew talked about Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout. At the end of her talk, she mentioned something about an old CSS property that got stuck in my head:

“The Image is set round just by using the well-supported border-radius. Don’t forget that old CSS still exists and is useful. You don’t need to use something fancy for every effect.” — Rachel Andrew

Shortly after I heard this talk, I thought that you certainly could create more than just circles and started to dig deeper into what can be done using border-radius.

That’s really cool. I had a quick play and made this gold ‘shield’ award:

You Win A Prize!

0 comments

    Reply here

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Reply on your own site

    Reply by email

    I'd love to hear what you think. Send an email to b11465@danq.me; be sure to let me know if you're happy for your comment to appear on the Web!