Question

How to make this button is CSS with Angled , Drop shadow, Inset shadow with flexibility in width?

I’ve tried to make it here http://jsfiddle.net/jitendravyas/6RsnN/ but don’t how to give angle to it and how to create cut-out border around it.

And button should be flexible in width.

I’m only making this for iphone so full CSS3 is allowed.

Answer 1

The final result is:

pure css blue button http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/8258/664d7b5656434db68cbee8b.png

Demonstration of flexibility:

Although I tried to make a button like in the picture, but some parts may not be the same. Would consider it a proof of concept.

This button can be pure CSS only with a lot of extra markup with this markup:

<a class="btn">
    <span class="triangle"></span>
    <span class="btn_inner">
        <span class="triangle"></span>
        Back
    </span>
</a>

The main trick for creating triangles with box-shadow includes several steps:

• Step 1. Create element ‘.triangle’ – it will be a wrap for real triangle.

• Step 2. Apply position: absolute;, fix its width and height:
  red background-color is onle for demo
  

• Step 3. Create big square element ‘.triangle::before’ — it will be ‘real’ triangle after step 6

• Step 4. Turn it 45 degrees (transform: rotate(45deg)).

• Step 5. Add box-shadow.
  The result after step 3 is:
  

• Step 6. Add overflow: hidden; Ta-dum!
  

On .tag_inner use the same trick, but box-shadow should be not inset but normal.

Notice, that if you will use this trick always check what vendor prefixes must be used and place property without prefix on the last place.

Update: Make markup more semantic — only one element for triangle trick.