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?
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):
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:
(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.)
Arrows. To create a simple arrow without a tail, make a box with a width and height, border, as well as zero left and top borders. To make an up arrow, add the transform: rotate(225deg); property, and to make a down arrow, add the transform: rotate(45deg); property to rotate the arrow to 225 and 45 degrees respectively ...
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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