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How to Make Speech Bubbles in CSS

How to Make Speech Bubbles in CSS

Ferenc Almasi β€’ 2020 December 01 β€’ Read time 1 min read
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Did you know that the border-radius property in CSS can take up multiple values? This way, you can create various different effects, like speech bubbles.

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.speech-bubble {
    border-radius: 50% 50% 0% 100% / 40% 45% 55% 60%;
}
speech-bubbles.css

The example above, will create the following effect:

To break it down, this works by:

  • Setting each border-radius value individually by the first four percentages (top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left in order)
  • This is followed by a / and four different values again for each corner to create elliptical corners.

To play around with custom border-radius values, I recommend checking out the

Fancy Border Radius Generator

How to make speech bubbles in CSS
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