Rounded corners on images using CSS3

Most browsers do not allow images to be cropped using CSS3’s border-radius. Tim Van Damme recently posted a workaround for this issue. It’s a nice trick, and doesn’t require JavaScript.

It does, however, require an extra span to be added to the page’s markup, which is quite a pain to manually apply to each image. Bram Van Damme (no relation to Tim) posted a simple jQuery script that automate’s Tim’s workaround with minimal effort. It’s a perfect example of using JavaScript for progressive enhancement purposes, as the page is still usable when JavaScript and/or CSS is disabled.

Being a MooTools kind of guy, I decided to whip up a MooTools-flavored version. Enjoy!

window.addEvent("domready", function (){
    $("img").each(function(img){
        new Element("span", {
            "class": "rounded",
            styles: {
                "background-image": "url(" + img.getProperty('src') + ")",
                height: img.getProperty('height') + "px",
                width: img.getProperty('width') + "px"
            }
        }).wraps(img);
    });
});Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Bear in mind this JavaScript relies on your page having some pre-defined CSS:

.rounded {
    -webkit-border-radius: 25px;
    -moz-border-radius: 25px;
    border-radius: 25px;
    display: block;
}
.rounded img { opacity: 0; }Code language: CSS (css)

View demo

Notes:

• The demo page has the code wrapped in a function, which makes the code reusable; it accepts any CSS selector, such as “img”, “#myid img”, “p img”, “img.rounded”, etc.
• This will only work in browsers that support CSS3 border-radius, which means no IE6/7/8 or older versions of Safari, Firefox, or Opera.