A horizontal Curly Bracket

Posted April 13, 2015

Had a contest with someone at work the other day to do a strictly old CSS implementation of a horizontal curly bracket. Of course, now I’d probably look at writing a } character and rotating it, or just writing out an SVG, but this was a lot of fun.

Here’s a JS Fiddle. Of course, I can only promise it works in Chrome 41 on my Mac.

	.item {
	width: 200px;
	}
	.top {
	margin-bottom: -8px;
	text-align: center;
	}
	.borders {
	border-bottom: black solid 1px;
	border-left: black solid 1px;
	border-right: black solid 1px;
	height: 8px;
	border-bottom-right-radius:8px;
	border-bottom-left-radius:8px;
	}
	.leftcurve {
	height:5px;
	width: 5px;
	border-top:black solid 1px;
	border-right: black solid 1px;
	border-top-right-radius: 5px;
	display: inline-block;
	}
	.rightcurve {
	height: 5px;
	width: 5px;
	border-top: black solid 1px;
	border-left: black solid 1px;
	border-top-left-radius: 5px;
	display: inline-block;
	margin-left: -4px;
	}
	.arrow {
	background-color: white;
	top: -7px;
	left: 50px;
	width:12px;
	position: relative;
	z-index:50;
	}

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	<div class="item">
	<div class="top">Button Text</div>
	<div class="borders"></div>
	<div class="arrow">
	<div class="leftcurve"></div>
	<div class="rightcurve"></div>
	</div>
	</div>

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