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		spystath on April 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSS Hexagon Tutorial These tricks with CSS are all nice. Pardon my ignorance, though, if one needs a way to draw shapes wouldn't something like SVG be more suitable for these sort of tasks? I know it is probably not as easy as with CSS (support is more limited as well), but isn't this example kinda like abusing the limits of the stylesheets?

duopixel on April 4, 2012 [–]

Yes, svg would be more compact: http://jsfiddle.net/fgu5R/

NHQ on April 4, 2012 | [–]

Can you apply css transformations to that?

duopixel on April 5, 2012 | | [–]

Yes you can http://jsfiddle.net/ReZbM/

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