Slanted Background with CSS clip-path property

Kirsten Swanson
3 min readDec 30, 2022
Background Slant Example

The CSS clip-path property allows one to clip an element to show only the parts that you want visible. The clip-path property can be used on many values, but for this demonstration we’re going to focus on the polygon shape since the background will be rectangular in shape.

The polygon clip-path relies on a set of vertices. Below are the intersecting points of a rectangle.

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Kirsten Swanson

A creative, adventurous, and curious Front-End Developer