Inverted Corners

🎨 A Houdini Paint worklet for inverted corners.

Table of Contents

• Setup
  • Standalone
  • Worklet
  • Check support
• Usage
  • Properties
  • Corners
  • Backgrounds
    • Basic gradient
    • Tri-color gradient
    • Color stops
    • Angles
  • Masks
  • Images
• Examples
• Bugs & Features
• License

📦 Setup

🧪 Please remember this is experimental and may not work in all browsers. Is Houdini ready yet?

Standalone

Add the following to your HTML to include Inverted Corners using unpkg.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/inverted-corners/lib/inverted-corners.min.js"></script>

Omit the version number to use the latest version, or use a specific one:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/lib/inverted-corners.min.js"></script>

That's it! Read the Usage section to learn how to access the paint worklet.

Worklet

If you want to include the worklet yourself, you can add the paint module like this:

CSS.paintWorklet.addModule('https://unpkg.com/inverted-corners/lib/inverted-corners-worklet.min.js');

For example, in a React app you could execute this on the component mount:

import React, { useEffect } from 'react';

const MyComponent = () => {
    useEffect(() => {
        if ('paintWorklet' in CSS) {
            CSS.paintWorklet.addModule('https://unpkg.com/inverted-corners/lib/inverted-corners-worklet.min.js');
        }
    }, []);

    return (
        {/* some content here */}
    );
};

export default MyComponent;

Check support

To check if a browser supports the Paint API via JavaScript:

if ('paintWorklet' in CSS) {
    // Browser supports paint worklets, add the module here
} else {
    console.warn('Houdini\'s Paint Worklet is not supported on your browser.');
}

To check if a browser supports the Paint API via CSS:

@supports (background: paint(something)) {
    /* Browser supports paint worklets, do something here */
}

⌨️ Usage

Once you're done with the Setup, you can immediately access the paint worklet with either background: paint(inverted-corners); or -webkit-mask-image: paint(inverted-corners);

Properties

There are three input properties for the paint worklet:

Property	Description
--corner-radius	The radii of the four corners
--background	A color or a gradient to use as the background
list-style-image	An image to use as the background

Corners

You can set the radius of each corner using the --corner-radius property.

It uses a shorthand syntaxt similar to the native border-radius property.

--corner-radius: <top-left> <top-right> <bottom-right> <bottom-left>;

For example,

--corner-radius: 20 20 -20 -20;

Positive values produce normal corners (similar to the border-radius property), while negative values produce inverted corners.

Backgrounds

You can set the background using the --background property.

For example,

--background: #fff;

To add a shadow, use filter: drop-shadow() instead of box-shadow.

You can also use gradients! Just set multiple colors separated with a comma.

Basic gradient

--background: cyan, purple;

Tri-color gradient

--background: #879af2, #d3206b, #fda000;

Color stops

To set a custom color stop, use the following format:

<color> <color-stop>

where <color-stop> is a number between 0.0 and 1.0.

For example,

--background: #879af2, #d3206b 0.2, #fda000;

Angles

To set a custom angle, add the rotation (in degrees) as the first parameter:

--background: 90deg, cyan, purple;

Masks

You can also use the mask-image (and the prefixed -webkit-mask-image) property to apply a mask and reshape an element.

-webkit-mask-image: paint(inverted-corners);
mask-image: paint(inverted-corners);

When using masks, you can apply a background with the regular background, background-color, and background-image CSS properties.

Keep in mind, that while this method is really useful in some cases, you'll lose the ability to add shadows to the element.

Images

To set an image as the background of the element, you can use the list-image-type property. This is necessary to workaround an issue where images wouldn't load with custom image properties on Chrome/Opera/Edge.

list-style-image: url(YOUR_IMAGE);

📙 Examples

Take a look at the following examples:

• Browser tab
• Navbar menu
• Instant messaging

🐞 Bugs & Features

If you have spotted any bugs, or would like to request additional features from the library, please file an issue.

📖 License

The MIT License, check the LICENSE file.