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Create Stitched Look using CSS

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Aug 11, 2013

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Learn how to give Stitched effect using CSS

Introduction

In this trick, we are going to learn how to give Stitched effect using CSS. Firstly, we give Stitched effect to a simple box (i.e. any div), then we add some background-images and take this trick to the next level.

Let's Start

HTML Structure

<div class="stitched">Stitched</div> 

CSS Style sheet

.stitched
{
background-color:darkred;
width:200px;
font-size:20px;
color:white; 
padding:20px; 
}

Here we set background-color, width, Font-size, etc. of div using .stitched class.

Preview

CSS

.stitched
{
background-color:darkred;
width:200px;
font-size:20px;
color:white; 
padding:20px; 
border:2px dashed white; 
border-radius:20px; 
box-shadow:0px 0px 4px 4px darkred; 
}

Now, we add border, border-radius and box-shadow to .stitched class. In box shadow, we only use blur and spread and set value to 4px (box-shadow syntax: box-shadow: h-shadow v-shadow blur spread color).

Preview

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This one is the basic example of giving stitched effect. Now we are going to create another Stitched effect.

HTML Document

<div class="pic">

<div class="borderdiv">
<div class="inner"><p class="text1">Stitched</p></div>
 </div>
</div>   

Here, the outermost div (.pic) is used to set background-image, middle (.borderdiv) to set border and giving stitched look and innermost div (.inner) for text, etc.

CSS

.pic
{
background-image:url("white_leather.png");
width:302px;
height:202px;
border-radius:5px;
} 

Here, I set background-image, width, height and border-radius.

Preview

image3

CSS

.borderdiv
{
width:280px;
height:180px;
border: 2px dashed #aaa;
border-radius:10px;
position:relative;
top:9px;
left:10px;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #f5f5f5 
}  

Here, we set width and height less than the .pic so that it comes inside it. Then, we set Border, Border-radius and box-shadow to give effect of Stitched. Using Position, we adjust position inside the div (.pic).

Preview

CSS

.text1
{
margin-top:60px;
text-align:center;
font-size:50px;
color:gray; 
} 

Here we adjust Font-size, color, align, etc.

Preview (Final)

I have created some other examples using the same technique. You can download it for viewing or using.

Preview

That's all. Hope you like it.

Thanks.

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