Background Scale Hover Effect with CSS Clip-path

A simple recreation of the background scale hover effect seen on the DDD Hotel website using CSS clip-path.

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Today I’d like to share a simple hover effect with you. It’s a recreation of the hover effect seen in the menu on the DDD Hotel website by Garden Eight. The idea is to scale down the background image and “fitting” it to a clip shape which contains the same background image. The shape is visible because the opacity of the background is a bit lower:

When I saw the effect on the DDD Hotel website, I wanted to try to do it using the clip-path property and explore different shapes.

It’s very straightforward: one layer has the background image and a second layer has the additional clip path with a basic shape.

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For the last demo, where I wanted to show two circles, I simply stacked two clip-path layers. But for more complex paths, one could also use an SVG instead.

Other interesting things that could be done here is to animate the clip-path (scale it/move it) or change the shape for each link. What do you think?

Manoela Ilic

Manoela is the main tinkerer at Codrops. With a background in coding and passion for all things design, she creates web experiments and keeps frontend professionals informed about the latest trends.

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