Pointed/angled arrow-style borders in CSS

Question

I\'m making a breadcrumb menu and attempting to do it in pure CSS so I don\'t have to use a background image to get an arrow shape. Is it possible to achieve this angled border

Answer 1

Stealing from CSS Tricks - CSS Triangle, you can do something like

li.breadcrumb:after {
    content: "";
    display: inline-block;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-top: 20px solid #eee;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #eee;
    border-left: 20px solid #ccc;
}

li.breadcrumb:after {
    content: "";
    display: inline-block;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-top: 20px solid #eee;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #eee;
    border-left: 20px solid #ccc;
}
li.first-crumb:after {
    border-top: 20px solid #ccc;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #ccc;
    border-left: 20px solid #aaa;
}
li.last-crumb:after {
    border-top: 20px solid #fff;
    border-bottom: 20px solid #fff;
    border-left: 20px solid #eee;
}

li.breadcrumb {
    list-style-type: none;
    background-color: #ccc;
    display: inline-block;
    float: left;
    line-height: 0;
}
li.first-crumb {
    background: #aaa;
}
li.last-crumb {
    background: #eee;
}
li.breadcrumb a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

    

        
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Durr
        
        
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