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Web Developer's Reference Guide
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Web Developer's Reference Guide

by Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
March 2016
Beginner
838 pages
14h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Masking and clipping

These two features allow us to hide parts of an element in order to show a background image or color, or to give an element a special shape. Both terms can be a bit confusing, so let's see a brief description of each:

  • Clipping is done with vectors or paths since this CSS feature was taken from the SVG specification. It creates a solid edge between the element and its background.
  • Masking, on the other hand, uses images/bitmaps. With images, we can have "feathered" or blurred edges, whereas with clipping we have straight edges.

Let's check these properties out.

mask

The mask CSS property is the shorthand for the mask-clip, mask-composite, mask-image, mask-mode, mask-origin, mask-position, mask-repeat, and mask-size properties. We'll ...

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