CSS Tip

Fancy corner decoration for your images

Add a fancy decoration to the corners of your image using a few lines of code

corner-only decoration for images

img {
  --w: 250px; /* image width */
  --r: 1;     /* image ratio */
  --c: 113px; /* control the size of the decoration */
  
  width: var(--w);
  padding: 10px; /* control the outer space  */
  box-sizing: border-box;
  aspect-ratio: var(--r);
  object-fit: cover;
  --_g:calc(100% - var(--w)/2)/calc(var(--w)*(1 + 1/var(--r)) - var(--c));
  background: repeating-conic-gradient(from 45deg,#0000 0 25%,#0005 0 50%) var(--_g);
  mask:       repeating-conic-gradient(from 45deg,#000  0 25%,#0005 0 50%) var(--_g);
}

See the Pen Fancy corner decoration for images by Temani Afif (@t_afif) on CodePen.