CSS Shapes - Other shapes

So far we have gone through some basic CSS shapes, and triangles in CSS. Today we’ll be focussing on some cool other shapes.

The shapes that will be covered in this article are the following:

• Trapezoid in CSS
• Parallelogram in CSS
• Hexagon in CSS
• Egg in CSS

Trapezoid in CSS permalink

The first shape we’ll be looking at today is the Trapezoid. It’s basically a warped rectangle. And we can actually create this by leveraging the borders as we’ve seen with the CSS Triangles.

.trapezoid {
  border-bottom: 100px solid #3e92cc;
  border-left: 50px solid transparent;
  border-right: 50px solid transparent;
  height: 0;
  width: 150px;
}

That will give us the following result:

Parallelogram in CSS permalink

Now onto the parallelogram, which is another rectangle but skewed a specific way, and that’s exactly how to create this shape.

.parallelogram {
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  transform: skew(20deg);
  background: #3e92cc;
}

With that, we get the following result.

Hexagon in CSS permalink

Another cool shape we can create is the hexagon. A six-pointed element, and although it sounds easy, it has quite the challenge to it.

For our example, we use a rectangle and use CSS pseudo-elements to add the top and bottom triangles to it.

.hexagon {
  width: 90px;
  height: 50px;
  background: #3e92cc;
  position: relative;
}
.hexagon::before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  top: -25px;
  border-left: 45px solid transparent;
  border-right: 45px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 25px solid #3e92cc;
}
.hexagon::after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  bottom: -25px;
  border-left: 45px solid transparent;
  border-right: 45px solid transparent;
  border-top: 25px solid #3e92cc;
}

And that will give us this result:

Egg in CSS permalink

And for one of my favorites, the egg! It’s quite simple to create as we use the ellipsis but adjust it a bit.

.egg {
  display: block;
  width: 100px;
  height: 130px;
  background-color: #3e92cc;
  border-radius: 50% 50% 50% 50% / 60% 60% 40% 40%;
}

And we get this cool-looking egg.

Demonstration of CSS Shapes permalink

As usual, you can try these shapes on the following Codepen, try to make some adjustments, and see what happens.

See the Pen CSS Shapes - Other shapes by Chris Bongers (@rebelchris) on CodePen.

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