Create a 'trapezium' shaped div with Clipped overflow

Question

Im wondering if anybody know if at all possible, how to create a trapezium using CSS/Html/Canvas.

I've tried to sort of hash one together only its very messy and would be unusable in the real world.

div {
 width:0;
 margin-left:-1000px;
 height:100px; 
 border-right:1000px solid lightblue;
 border-top:60px solid transparent;
 border-bottom:60px solid transparent; 
 padding-left:1000px;
 white-space:no-wrap;
}

Heres my jsFiddle...

http://jsfiddle.net/Liamatvenn/WWYYM/

Answer 1

I can do it with 2 extra divs as wrappers.

CSS

.trapezium {
    position: absolute;
    left: 40px;
    top: 40px;
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    -webkit-transform: skewY(6deg);
    overflow: hidden;
}

.trapezium > div {
  background-color: yellow;
    position: absolute;
    left: 0px;
    top: 50px;
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    -webkit-transform: skewY(-12deg);
    overflow: hidden;
}

.trapezium > div > div {
  font-size: 60px;
  background-color: yellow;
    position: absolute;
    left: 0px;
    top: -30px;
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    -webkit-transform: skewY(6deg);
    overflow: hidden;
}

demo