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Pointed/angled arrow-style borders in CSS

I'm making a breadcrumb menu and attempting to do it in pure CSS so I don't have to use a background image to get an arrow shape. Is it possible to achieve this angled border style with pure CSS?

Arrow breadcrumbs

The best I have been able to do looks like this (this is just a draft screenshot I made a while ago, so please disregard that it implies that breadcrumbs are fruits and/or delicious):

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I was achieving it using CSS like this:

.breadcrumb li {
    border-right: 2px solid #ECECEC;
    border-top-right-radius: 40px;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 40px;
}

Here's the whole CSS in case it helps:

div.breadcrumb {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    border-bottom: 2px solid gray;
}
ul.breadcrumb {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.breadcrumb li {
    float: left;
    display: list-item;
    background-color: #F2F2F2;
    border-right: 2px solid #ECECEC;
    border-top-right-radius: 40px;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 40px;
    position: relative;
    padding: 9px 20px 10px 35px;
    margin-left: -32px;
}
.breadcrumb li.first-crumb {
    background: #E7E7E7;
    padding-left: 20px;
    margin-left: 0px;
}
.breadcrumb li.last-crumb {
    border-top: 1px solid #E3E3E3;
    border-right: 1px solid #E3E3E3;
    background: white;
    padding-top: 9px;
    padding-bottom: 9px;
    border-top-right-radius: 0px;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 0px;
}
.breadcrumb li:not(.first-crumb) {
    padding-left: 45px;
}
.breadcrumb li:not(.last-crumb) a:after {
    content: "\27F6";
    margin-left: 10px;
    color: #444444;
    margin-right: 0px;
}
.breadcrumb li a,
.breadcrumb li span {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    position: relative;
}
.breadcrumb li a {
    text-decoration: none;
}
.breadcrumb li.first-crumb a {
    padding-left: 0px;
    margin-left: 0px;
}

My markup looks like this:

<div class="breadcrumb">
    <ul class="breadcrumb">
        <li class="breadcrumb first-crumb"><a href="#">Produce</a></li>
        <li class="breadcrumb"><a href="#">Fruits</a></li>
        <li class="breadcrumb last-crumb"><span>breadcrumb-ilicious!</span></li>
    </ul>
</div>

Edit: It would be nice if I could get it to look like there's an actual border too. This is my crude skitch of it:

enter image description here

(I tried adding several triangles per Olaf's suggestion and the only thing I couldn't get to work was correcting the obvious gap between two triangles without changing the angle of the triangle poking out to form the border.)

enter image description here

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2rs2ts Avatar asked Nov 01 '13 22:11

2rs2ts


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1 Answers

Stealing from CSS Tricks - CSS Triangle, you can do something like

li.breadcrumb:after {
    content: "";
    display: inline-block;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-top: 20px solid #eee;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #eee;
    border-left: 20px solid #ccc;
}

li.breadcrumb:after {
    content: "";
    display: inline-block;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-top: 20px solid #eee;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #eee;
    border-left: 20px solid #ccc;
}
li.first-crumb:after {
    border-top: 20px solid #ccc;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #ccc;
    border-left: 20px solid #aaa;
}
li.last-crumb:after {
    border-top: 20px solid #fff;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #fff;
    border-left: 20px solid #eee;
}

li.breadcrumb {
    list-style-type: none;
    background-color: #ccc;
    display: inline-block;
    float: left;
    line-height: 0;
}
li.first-crumb {
    background: #aaa;
}
li.last-crumb {
    background: #eee;
}
li.breadcrumb a {
    text-decoration: none;
}
<div class="breadcrumb">
    <ul class="breadcrumb">
        <li class="breadcrumb first-crumb"><a href="#">Hurr</a>
        </li>
        <li class="breadcrumb"><a href="#">Durr</a>
        </li>
        <li class="breadcrumb last-crumb"><span>Furr</span>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div class="arrow-right"></div>

Original JSFiddle

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Olaf Dietsche Avatar answered Oct 12 '22 15:10

Olaf Dietsche