Responsive grid of hexagons

Question

I loaded in multiple images on my website from the internet. Is it possible to give all those images an hexagon shape in a responsive grid?

Answer 1

instead of using class in img tag use css in container img like

.container img{ your code}

it will save you a lot trouble of putting class in images

Answer 2

if it is about honeycombing, here is a CSS possibilitie. http://codepen.io/gc-nomade/pen/eyntg/

  <div><!-- even div gets a negative bottom margin. all of them gets a negative right margin -->
  <span><!-- skewed and rotated -->
    <img src="http://lorempixel.com/200/200/food/1"/><!-- rotated back, unskewed and rescaled -->
  </span>
</div>

Answer 3

Alright, here's a clean, cross-browser compatible solution that will even allow you to honeycomb the hexagons:

For this to work, you need to wrap each image in 2 containers, since one will be used for the top left / bottom right cut-off and the other for the top right / bottom left cut-off.

<div class="outerclip">
    <div class="innerclip">
        <img src="http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090714124528/firefly/images/thumb/1/11/Firefly_class_ship.jpg/100px-136,568,0,431-Firefly_class_ship.jpg" />
    </div>
</div>

The CSS then gives each cut-off container a skew that adds the angles to the image:

.outerclip {
    -webkit-transform: skew(-30deg);
    -ms-transform: skew(-30deg);
    -transform: skew(-30deg);
    overflow: hidden;
    display: inline-block;
}
.innerclip {
    -webkit-transform: skew(50deg);
    -ms-transform: skew(50deg);
    transform: skew(50deg);
    overflow: hidden;
    display: inline-block;
}
img {
    -webkit-transform: skew(-30deg);
    -ms-transform: skew(-30deg);
    transform: skew(-30deg);
}

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/XkQtF/3/

Note: to improve the render quality, I'd advise to give both .outerclip and .innerclip the same fixed height.

To get the honeycombs, you can put several images in a row container and then offset each odd row by a couple of pixels like this:

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/XkQtF/4/