background image + triangle shapes in CSS

[jmorel]

Hi everybody !

I was able to generate the shape I want using css (using borders), but I’d know like to map a background on it. I tried a few solutions but I didn’t found anything working in CSS.

You’ll find an example there: http://codepen.io/jmorel/full/rIDAe
Is there any way (other than using images for the shapes) that I can extend the stripes background to my .top and .bottom divs while preserving the shape ?

I sure hope there is, I’m rubbish with Photoshop.

[Paulie_D]

If you have created the shapes using borders then no. I feel that you might be able to do something with pseudo elements and gradients.

Unfortunately I am on my phone at the moment but I’ll look at it later if I have time

[yoyo]

hi

u can generate…any shapes using border-radius nd border-sizes

go through dis…

[css shapes](http://www.css3shapes.com/ “css3 shapes”)

[jmorel]

@Paulie_D thanks for the idea. I looked into it but I don’t think it’ll work. I’ll have to switch to images unfortunately.

[Kitty Giraudel]

Maybe this can help: http://dabblet.com/gist/4013914. Although this is not quite what you’re looking for.

[DrCLue]

Basically the trick to making a CSS based triangle use the border-image property and actually get the expected appearance seems to lay largely in the image used.

The CSS I used last time I did this goes something like this.

#pyramid{
display:inline-block;
border: 150px outset transparent;
border-top:0px outset transparent;
border-left:150px outset transparent;
border-right:150px outset transparent;
border-image: url(“pyramid_border_image.png”) 150 150 150 150 stretch stretch;
overflow:visible;
height :1px; width:1px;
padding :0; margin:-1px;
}

I’m sure that could be thinned out some , but at the time I just wanted to see if I could do it, however I might be revisiting it soon as I want a pyramid for one of my css3 3d things.

As I was mentioning , the trick seems at least to me to be mostly in the image , specifically the corner pieces for the lower left and lower right corners in the border image. These corners themselves need to have their squares contain 1/2 transparent and 1/2 pattern at the appropriate 45 degree angles for the two bottom corners of the triangle.

With the properly made image , it’s fairly straight forward after that.

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