CSS: Responsive elongated hexagon with text and gradient background/border

Question

I'm trying to create two elongated hexagons in like:

The main features should be:

• possibility to add a gradient background
• possibility to add a gradient border
• text could be two-lined or single-lined
• responsive in a Bootstrap-grid (nice to have) - angles of corners should be always the same.

According to Elongated hexagon shaped button using only one element the best solution so far is like https://jsfiddle.net/veuc78af/:

/*hexagons*/
 .hexagon {
    box-sizing: border-box;
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    min-width: 200px;
    height: 80px;
    margin: 40px auto;
    color: #fd0;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
    line-height: 80px;
}
.hexagon:before, .hexagon:after {
    position: absolute;
    content:'';
    width: 100%;
    left: 0px;
    height: 34px;
    z-index: -1;
}
.hexagon:before {
    transform: perspective(15px) rotateX(3deg);
}
.hexagon:after {
    top: 40px;
    transform: perspective(15px) rotateX(-3deg);
}
/* hexagon Border Style */
 .hexagon.border:before, .hexagon.border:after {
    border: 4px solid #fd0;
}
.hexagon.border:before {
    border-bottom: none;
    /* to prevent the border-line showing up in the middle of the shape */
}
.hexagon.border:after {
    border-top: none;
    /* to prevent the border-line showing up in the middle of the shape */
}
/* hexagon hover styles */
 .hexagon.border:hover:before, .hexagon.border:hover:after {
    background: #fd0;
}
.hexagon.border:hover {
    color: #fff;
}

The main problem with this solution is that it isn't possible to create a gradient background. So this isn't working in my case.

Is there any possibility to do that?

The main platform for this project is Safari on an iPad2.

Answer 1

Using CSS Clip Path:

The main platform for this project is Safari on an iPad2.

Since, your main platform is Safari and it does support CSS clip-path with shapes, you can make use of that feature to create the elongated hexagons like in the below demo.

Output produced by this approach will support (a) gradient backgrounds (b) a gradient border which is mimicked by placing a pseudo-element with a very similar clip-path but smaller dimensions (c) two lines of text (d) also maintain the angles of the corners because the points are at a fixed px distance.

.hex {
  position: relative;
  float: left;
  height: 100px;
  min-width: 100px;
  padding: 12px;
  margin: 4px;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: center;
  background: linear-gradient(to right, rgb(199, 41, 41), rgb(243, 67, 54));
  -webkit-clip-path: polygon(25px 0px, calc(100% - 25px) 0px, 100% 50%, calc(100% - 25px) 100%, 25px 100%, 0px 50%);
}
.hex.gradient-bg {
  color: white;
}
.hex.gradient-border {
  color: rgb(199, 41, 41);
}
.hex:before {
  position: absolute;
  content: '';
  height: calc(100% - 14px);  /* 100% - 2 * border width */
  width: calc(100% - 14px);  /* 100% - 2 * border width */
  left: 7px; /* border width */
  top: 7px; /* border width */
  -webkit-clip-path: polygon(22px 0px, calc(100% - 22px) 0px, 100% 50%, calc(100% - 22px) 100%, 22px 100%, 0px 50%);
  z-index: -1;
}
.hex.gradient-bg:before {
  background: linear-gradient(to right, rgb(199, 41, 41), rgb(243, 67, 54));
}
.hex.gradient-border:before {
  background: rgb(245, 246, 248);
}
span {
  display: block;
  margin-top: 50px;
  padding: 8px;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
}

<div class='hex gradient-border'>
  <span>Some text</span>
</div>
<div class='hex gradient-bg'>
  <span>Some very lengthy text</span>
</div>
<div class='hex gradient-bg'>
  <span>Some very lengthy text
  <br/>with line break</span>
</div>
<div class='hex gradient-bg'>
  <span>Some very lengthy text
  without line break</span>
</div>

---

Using SVG:

The same can be done using SVG also like in the below demo. It just requires a path to be created in the form of a hexagon and then for that path image to be placed behind the container.

The only drawback is that unlike CSS clip-path there is no non-JS way to get the angles to stay the same.

.hex {
  position: relative;
  height: 100px;
  min-width: 100px;
  padding: 12px 24px;
  margin: 4px;
  float: left;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: center;
}
.hex.gradient-bg {
  color: white;
}
.hex.gradient-border {
  color: rgb(199, 41, 41);
}
.hex svg {
  position: absolute;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  top: 0px;
  left: 0px;
  z-index: -1;
}
path {
  stroke: url(#brdgrad);
  stroke-width: 7; /* border width */
}
.hex.gradient-bg path {
  fill: url(#bggrad);
}
.hex.gradient-border path {
  fill: rgb(245, 246, 248);
}
span {
  display: block;
  margin-top: 50px;
  padding: 8px;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
}

<svg width='0' height='0'>
  <defs>
    <linearGradient id='bggrad'>
      <stop offset='0%' stop-color='rgb(199, 41, 41)' />
      <stop offset='100%' stop-color='rgb(243, 67, 54)' />
    </linearGradient>
    <linearGradient id='brdgrad'>
      <stop offset='0%' stop-color='rgb(199, 41, 41)' />
      <stop offset='100%' stop-color='rgb(243, 67, 54)' />
    </linearGradient>
  </defs>
</svg>
<div class='hex gradient-border'>
  <svg viewBox='0 0 100 100' preserveAspectRatio='none'>
    <path d='M25,7 L75,7 93,50 75,93 25,93 7,50z' vector-effect='non-scaling-stroke' />
  </svg>
  <span>Some text</span>
</div>

<div class='hex gradient-bg'>
  <svg viewBox='0 0 100 100' preserveAspectRatio='none'>
    <path d='M25,7 L75,7 93,50 75,93 25,93 7,50z' vector-effect='non-scaling-stroke' />
  </svg>
  <span>Some very lengthy text</span>
</div>

<div class='hex gradient-bg'>
  <svg viewBox='0 0 100 100' preserveAspectRatio='none'>
    <path d='M25,7 L75,7 93,50 75,93 25,93 7,50z' vector-effect='non-scaling-stroke' />
  </svg>
  <span>Some very lengthy text
  <br>with line break.</span>
</div>

<div class='hex gradient-bg'>
  <svg viewBox='0 0 100 100' preserveAspectRatio='none'>
    <path d='M25,7 L75,7 93,50 75,93 25,93 7,50z' vector-effect='non-scaling-stroke' />
  </svg>
  <span>Some lengthy text
  without line break.</span>
</div>

(Don't be put off by how lengthy the SVG code is, it is so big only because I've repeated it more than once - once for each container. That can be reduced.)