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Image-free CSS Tooltip Pointers - A Use for Polygonal CSS?

# Linked to 5 March 2009, 03:00 in by Sam Brown

The tooltip widget design, fairly common in websites these days, uses a small triangular “speech bubble” pointer that is typically created quite easily with a background image. How to solve this problem without any need for images? That challenge led us to the experimental approach using polygonal CSS, shown below.

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Sam Brown

Sam Brown is a freelance interface designer and web standards developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sam's work can be seen at Massive Blue, blogs at Sam Brown and is on Twitter at @sambrown.