CSS transform skew one side [Archive]

coothead

02-20-2012, 11:42 AM

Hi there Sammy12,

you cannot skew one side only, but you can cheat. :D

Here is a dishonest example...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="language" content="english">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

<title>cheat for one side skew</title>

<style type="text/css">
body{
background-color:#f0f0f0;
}
#container{
width:250px;
margin:auto;
}
#skew {
float:left;
width:100px;
height:100px;
padding:10px;
border-top:1px solid #333;
border-left:1px solid #333;
-moz-transform: skew(25deg);
-webkit-transform: skew(25deg);
-o-transform: skew(25deg);
-ms-transform: skew(25deg);
background-color:#fff;
font-family:verdana,sans-serif;
font-size:16px;
color:#333;
white-space:nowrap;
}
#rectangle{
float:left;
width:200px;
height:100px;
padding:10px;
margin-left:-92px;
border:1px solid #333;
border-left:0;
background-color:#fff;
box-shadow:#333 5px 5px 5px;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>

<div id="container">

<div id="skew">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<br>
consectetur adipiscing elit.<br>
Donec ultricies sollicitudin<br>
nisi, ut molestie felis<br>
adipiscing sit amet. Sed
</div>

<div id="rectangle"></div>

</div>

</body>
</html>

coothead