CSS image reflections with box-reflect

Did you know CSS has a custom reflection property?
It's a pretty cool addition to reflect an image to a specific side.

We can create these reflections using the box-reflect property.

Curious to see what the reflection can look like, check out this Codepen using box-reflect.

Reflecting image using CSS

For our example, we are using a super simple markup using just one image.

<img src="myimage.png" />

Then we can use the box-reflect class to enable our reflection:

img {
  -webkit-box-reflect: below;
}

This will give us the following result:

We can use the following options:

• below
• above
• left
• right

And even place a offset:

img {
  -webkit-box-reflect: right 20px;
}

And even cooler, we can add a gradient as the fade-out effect using the third parameter.

img {
  -webkit-box-reflect: below 0px linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4));
}

Browser support

Box-reflect doesn't have the best support, but it's upcoming. So far, Firefox and IE have no support at all.

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Comments

[Roel de Brouwer]

Is IE support still a thing? What year is it?

[Chris Bongers]

Lol for some people it still is yeah, however, the Firefox one makes it a bit sad.

[Mehmed Duhovic]

Wow, you learn something new every day! I didn't even know about the reflection property.

[Chris Bongers]

Awesome, glad you learned something new, never stop learning

[crisarji]

Love this kind of posts, straight to the point with a clear and brief explanation.

[Chris Bongers]

Thanks, glad you like the article 👍