Tried a very different style with this video and I'd love to know what you think of it! (and yes, the mask-image would have been a lot easier and is probably the best approach 😅)

I had no idea you could position pseudo elements on the grid that’s so useful

There's nothing better than taking a design that most people would think requires photoshop/illustrator/masks/whatever and making it purely with CSS :) -- love this one!

Is there something that this guy can't do?! Amazing stuff Kevin!

This is next level and why I love your work so much. You not only show the 'what' and the 'how' but the 'why'. So important to understand when troubleshooting. At least it is for me. Thank you, and my vote is for more vids in this format.

I used to not be very interested in CSS, and would learn how to brute force certain things, but as I've recently become the staff (read: only) frontend engineer at a startup, I've had to do more and more elegant implementations from our design team, and your videos have been instrumental in teaching me all the levers and switches and tools at my disposal to get things done easily and scalably, and I really appreciate that.

you can do this with clip-path: polygon and sass functions by approximating a radius. Maybe impractical, but kinda cool, cause you can approximate any kinda shape, even squircles (like the shape of an ios app icon), which look very nice. You can even animate clip path point by point.

That’s why you are the CSS GOAT! 🙇‍♂️

Thanks for this video, Kevin. Seeing you use psuedo classes is always pretty impressive to me. Looking forward to the next one. I also really like that you pull suggestions like these off twitter. Little design challenges like these that I haven't seen before are inspiring.

Love the ingenuity of this. It is not always about the easier way, but knowing the ways you can achieve the same thing, though manipulatable means is the true pursuit of wisdom, as it can be applied in many different, and even unrelated scenarios. Great work, Kevin, as always!

Bravo 👏 👏 👏, I did the same using an svg as the corner that I rotated for each corner and had a variable for width, height, and fill to control its size and color. Your solution is so awesome and simple, and the best part is that it's all css, amazing!

Had this problem 8 years ago or so. Added circles in size of the radius and in color of the background to get this shape. Very simple solution.

Maybe not centric to the video, but that bit of "moving on to solving something else to make progress when you get stuck with a problem" is something that really helps me in my day-to-day web-dev tasks

Excellent, recently in the company we had the same challenge, I solved it using the after and before pseudo elements, in addition to the use of the clip-path function with an internal svg vector to do the drawing.

I love this shorter format! It's a good pace, quick and to the point, but still very easy to follow along if you know the basics (pseudo elements, grid, variables)

Amazing, but for the amount of work needed, I do believe that making it without SVG mask is the overkill.

Holy Jesus Kevin, mid-watch I was ready to comment "neat, now make it responsive" AND YOU GO AND MAKE IT RESPONSIVE! Amazing. Thanks for sharing

I saw someone do it in Webflow, although without using the grid. That's some valuable knowledge right here.

Thanks for going the hard way, in cases like this proving a point is progress for everyone. Also the sped-up live work was interesting to watch!

This is why you are the King of CSS. I enjoy watching your videos you make CSS digestible and fun.

The King of CSS at it again

Amazing work 👍kevin... I would also like to complete this challenge.

You Kevin really are the CSS KING.

Really impressive stuff! Thank you for sharing ❤

I came across a scenario like this the other day at work, I really wanted some kind of magical inverted border radius property at the time! 😅 I love your solution and I also enjoyed this content form, reminds me of the pace of a Short but with time for more detail. 👍

I can see you tried the same style as hyperplexed. Not quit his quality but keep it up, you’re getting there !

What a beautiful little design! Thanks for sharing, Kevin!

That was a fast-paced video... mercy for non-English speakers! Anyway, great video, thanks for this one, and for so much!

I really like hearing your thought process.

Kevin when watching your videos, my soul just relaxes ... .. I am big fan from Nepal 🙂😊

Honestly, the firs thought was, he got Kevin, will Kevin pull this off, but then again - he is the CSS man so, yeah, you nailed, thanks for the video.....whoooooooohhhh

I think I'd try doing it with an overlaid hand-coded SVG.

Beautiful!! Thanks Kevin!

Thanks It worked way better then box shadow method. thank you :)

Kevin when watching your videos, my soul just relaxes ☺

The dev was flexing unnecessarily on this one! Nice effect though. Nice one Kevin. 👊🏼

That's some next level shit , he always seems to send me to the beginner mode

That's amazing. I think I like the different approach. But I found I was having to force myself to breathe. Smooth edits on that.

Intresting......Surely I will find a good use for this knowledge

Great video, I haven’t used CSS in a few weeks so this has helped me get a bit of a refresher as well as a cool tip to maybe try.

didn't know you can place absolute elements relative to grid areas . Thanks for sharing.

Amazing work Kevin, thank you for the video!

Ahh I remember this one. Great video Kevin!

Crazy well done

Kevin, you should be working on the actual CSS spec... You're mind blowingly good at this.

I'll be honest that was a bit Janky or I should say Hacky, But I definitely learned some new things, That's always a Plus. Thanks for everything Kevin. Definately liked this new style, would love to see more like this here and there.

Wow awesome Kevin, tricky design, ;)

My solution (OJBZmra) which was picked by CodePen 😉 follows this closely. While CSS method looks sketchier with CSS it's easier to make it responsive and adaptive, all of the SVG solutions can't handle responsive layouts (however I think you could split the image in 2 or 3 which would allow for a responsive layout but it's now added a lot more complexity and it's more complex than the CSS solution. However I did the internal corners differently. Rather than having a square with a circular gradient to cut the corner, I used a transparent circle with the drop shadow 50% left 50% down and with this there were no aliased curves, all smooth and a lot simpler to set up.

REally Amazing The CSS King

Hello. Congratulations! Challenge completed!

Sometimes the best solution is not really the best solution. Doing this let you push the limits and find new ways to do stuff.

Good work thank you Kevin

Awesome just awesome, the css king

Mission accomplished! It's handy, it did the job, but I have to admit I really don't like all these, say, workarounds with pseudo elements. I think it isn't quite maintenable, specially when you cover that responsive behavior, even using CSS vars IMHO. But, well, you did it! Thanks for sharing!

That was brilliant

@Kevin Powell can you make a complete series videos on responsiveness with scss, i love you explanation.

Looks great. 👍🏻

split keyboard? wow, i'm interested to know how good that is

Both "radii" and "radiuses" are used in the UK and the US. "Radii" is far more common in published writing and academic papers.

i need to try this

Very interesting video! Thanks for sharing. 😉🔥

You are my favourite teacher ❤

This is a nice solution

as allways amazing

GENIUS!

Congratulations! This one is really tricky, having tried it some time ago, and failed

I tip my hat to you sir. Amazing.

Designer: Please implement this design Engineer: Wait a minute... it's done Enemy: Oh, that's good. Let's put this above the gradient

You are a true magiccsian!

Wow amazing thank. Now I Know

You are Magic Johnson of the CSS

That was a lot…. Thanks for all your work

Wished you showed more regarding the stacking in grid. Havent seen a video regarding this..

Oh, it's border-radii. Just flexing my knowledge of Latin plurals, you know the system where the entire modern language is based upon, no big deal. 😎📚

amazing maaan you are the goat ✨✨✨✨✨✨

Absolute goat

Please make video on this challenge. I want to make a layout where there are header and main and main has multiple dynamic items of 150/150 px each. while making responsive screen, items should wraps in smaller size. header should always occupy width according to the items. for example if it has 1 item then header width should have 150px if 2 items then 300px and so on so forth.

CSS King 👌

Damm thats awesome

I had to something like this but with a dynamic background. clip-path() with SCSS variables instead of custom properties was how I got it done.

This looks great for post-edits but a nightmare for the initial edit. I love native approaches and avoiding raw images, but in this case I would stick to an image.

Greetings from Cyprus. I was trying to do this on a project I'm working on..

idk why but I really like the editing and overall the video. Did you change anything?

Oh my GOD, you have a split keyboard. Can you make a video about your macros and about your experience with a split keyboard? It would be nice :)

This is definitely one of those "great katas that you'd never want to actually implement" type of things

You could use gradients for mask-image instead of an svg.

I've had to do something similar before. Before vector masks were as flexible as they are today. My case was somewhat simpler though. So I can't help but wonder if rendering the image on two boxes would have made it simpler to do.

Slay, king 🤴

So absolute position in grid is relative la grid area that grid item takes not all grid container rectangle?. Is this correct? Thank you!

Maybe if we can apply Image-rendering: smooth; To shapes is possible

I'm still getting better at css so please forgive me if there is something obvious I'm forgetting. But why can't you just create an overlapping div or 2 to the right with border radius properties and a background color set to black, then use mix-blend-mode: screen; on it, to subtract the corners from the bottom shape?

Css legend

Brilliant as usual Kevin, thanks. In case I want to try the mask way. Is it that I would do it in Photoshop for instance and save it and use it in html? Is that what you mean? I have never tried such thing before.

From Egypt u are the best

This reminds me of those is rounded corner days. When you would put 4 rounded cornered images at the four sides of the box - positioning absolute. CSS Grid should be ashamed of. And why the grid gap did not work? Any idea? This is totally strange!!

Next video: this layout, but with transparency instead of using white

This is a great video format, and I really enjoyed your explanation. Thanks. But on another issue, I think this challenge illustrates just how crazy CSS is as a language. The CSS solution is often more complex than the problem it is trying to solve. HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript were probably all reasonable ideas when they began, but they aren't good at describing the web we are building today. They never had good Separation of Concerns, and the concerns of the modern web are not those of the past. Instead of useful tools they are akin to mystic spells and incantations, adding their own complexity to the original task. We have answered these complexities with the rise of Frameworks and new languages, multiplying the complexity and adding dependency issues on top. All this results in a web that looks great, but has uncertain security, confused UX flow, intermittent bugs and even superstitious advice. We should stop adding to these languages and instead work together to figure out a new paradigm which fits the modern web. $0.02

Interesting. My first thought would have been abusing outlines, pseudo-elements, and/or z-index, but it would probably be even harder than this method.

Kevin amazing video as always It’s mind blowing how complex css can get Here a video idea Kevin shows us your old css projects or websites would be fun to see CSS master struggles or I guess progress 👍😃

About to be enlightened by the content but first - which monitor do you use Kevin?