Monday, 1 February 2016

Creating a Crop box / Overlay effect in CSS

I work for a company that produces a product from images uploaded and cropped by the user. We have a complex system in place to allow a user to crop their photo involving layering a bunch of divs and absolutely positioning them with JS to achieve the effect of an outline for the crop area.

I think it can be done in CSS using flexbox and some clever use of border / outline / shadow-box / clipping, I'm just not sure what the best approach would be. How would you go about emulating a cropping tool in CSS without running into z-index / positioning issues?

Here's a quick stab I took at it. It works kinda well but the opacity doesn't look great and might confuse customers.

http://ift.tt/20lfnVe

Thanks for taking a look!



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