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Clip-path: Polygon

Clip-path: Polygon

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Clip-path: Polygon

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- [Instructor] If you need a clip path that is a triangle or a square turned on its side or any other shape that has straight lines and coordinate points, you can use a polygon. When you define a polygon, you set the coordinates for each point, and then the polygon will draw a line between point and point and point and point until you get the polygon you want. The polygon is defined using the polygon method. And here you have to define at least three points because otherwise you don't have an area in which there can be a clip path. The points are defined by setting their X and Y position, and you can do this using pixel values or ems or percentages. In most cases, if you're working in a responsive environment, you want to use percentages. So let's just set up three random points here. So I'll say 25% and 50. So this would be the first point. So now it's 25% in from the left-hand side and 50 down from the top. Then, I…

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