The shape-outside CSS property defines a shape around which inline content wraps.
By default, inline content wraps the margin box, but the shape-outside property allows to wrap around complex objects.
This property takes both <basic-shape> and URL as values.
Currently, the shape-outside property only works on floated elements, but this can change later. Animations and transitions can also manipulate this property.
| Initial Value | None |
| Applies to | Floats. |
| Inherited | No. |
| Animatable | Yes, as specified for <basic-shape>. |
| Version | CSS1 |
| DOM Syntax | object.style.shapeOutside = "margin-box"; |
Syntax
shape-outside: none |<shape-box>> | <basic-shape> | <image> | initial | inherit;Example of the shape-outside property specified as "ellipse":
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
div {
shape-outside: ellipse(120px 200px at 40% 50%);
clip-path: ellipse(120px 200px at 40% 50%);
width: 300px;
height: 500px;
float: right;
opacity: 0.6;
background-color: #8ebf42;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Shape-outside property example</h2>
<div></div>
<p>
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</p>
</body>
</html>Example of the shape-outside property with an image:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
img {
width: 250px;
shape-outside: url("/uploads/media/default/0001/01/b408569013c0bb32b2afb0f0d45e93e982347951.jpeg");
}
.left {
float: left;
}
.right {
float: right;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Shape-outside property example</h2>
<img src="/uploads/media/default/0001/01/b408569013c0bb32b2afb0f0d45e93e982347951.jpeg" alt="tree" class="left" />
<img src="/uploads/media/default/0001/01/b408569013c0bb32b2afb0f0d45e93e982347951.jpeg" alt="tree" class="right" />
<p>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummied text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummied text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
</p>
</body>
</html>Example of the shape-outside property specified as "polygon":
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
div {
shape-outside: polygon(0 0, 0 200px, 300px 600px);
clip-path: polygon(0 0, 0 200px, 300px 600px);
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
float: left;
opacity: 0.3;
background-color: #8ebf42;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Shape-outside property example</h2>
<div></div>
<p>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummied text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummied text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummied text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum is dummied text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
</p>
</body>
</html>Values
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| none | There is no shape applied. The element’s float area is not affected. |
| <shape-box> | The float area is determined according to the shape of a float element's edges. <shape-box> can be one of the four values: margin-box, border-box, padding-box, content-box. Any curvature included in the shape is created by the border-radius property. |
| <basic-shape> | The float area is determined based on the following values:
|
| <image> | The shape is extracted and determined based on the alpha channel of the specified <image>. |
| initial | Makes the property use its default value. |
| inherit | Inherits the property from its parents element. |
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