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Super Mario Blocks in CSS

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Super Mario Blocks in CSS

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2019-02-15

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Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks.

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Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks.

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What our final product will look like:

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Mario blocks cretaed with CSS

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Live CodePen Example

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The HTML

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The set of Mario blocks doesn't require a huge amount of effort for it's html structure, we only need:

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The HTML

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The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge amount of effort for it’s html structure, we only need:

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Sidenote: This is only how I chose to add the inner dots to the Mario blocks. There are many other ways to create these, so please feel free to implement them however you see fit.

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<!-- Main parent block -->
-<div class="mario-block">
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-    <!-- Checkbox input (disabled by default) -->
-    <input type="checkbox" id="1" disabled>
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-    <!-- Checkbox label -->
-    <label for="1">
-        <!-- Inner dots for blocks -->
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-    </label>
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-</div>
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<!-- Main parent block -->
+<div class="mario-block">
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+    <!-- Checkbox input (disabled by default) -->
+    <input type="checkbox" id="1" disabled>
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+    <!-- Checkbox label -->
+    <label for="1">
+        <!-- Inner dots for blocks -->
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+    </label>
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+</div>
 

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Now we just add as many default blocks we want, along with the interactive punch block (.mario-block--question):

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<div class="mario-block">
-    <input type="checkbox" id="1" disabled>
-    <label for="1">
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-    </label>
-</div>
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-<div class="mario-block">
-    <input type="checkbox" id="2" disabled>
-    <label for="2">
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-    </label>
-</div>
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-<div class="mario-block mario-block--question">
-    <input type="checkbox" id="3">
-    <label for="3">
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="question-mark"></div>
-    </label>
-</div>
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-<div class="mario-block">
-    <input type="checkbox" id="4" disabled>
-    <label for="4">
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-        <div class="dot"></div>
-    </label>
-</div>
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<div class="mario-block">
+    <input type="checkbox" id="1" disabled>
+    <label for="1">
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+    </label>
+</div>
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+<div class="mario-block">
+    <input type="checkbox" id="2" disabled>
+    <label for="2">
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+    </label>
+</div>
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+<div class="mario-block mario-block--question">
+    <input type="checkbox" id="3">
+    <label for="3">
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="question-mark"></div>
+    </label>
+</div>
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+<div class="mario-block">
+    <input type="checkbox" id="4" disabled>
+    <label for="4">
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+        <div class="dot"></div>
+    </label>
+</div>
 

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The CSS

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First we need to remove the default checkbox input styling and place all new styling on it's corresponding label.

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/* Mario block parent div */
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The CSS

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First we need to remove the default checkbox input styling and place all new styling on it’s corresponding label.

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/* Mario block parent div */
 .mario-block {
     display: inline-block;
     height: 80px;
-    margin-right: -7px; /* Fixes inline-block margin bug */
+    margin-right: -7px; /* Fixes inline-block margin bug */
     position: relative;
     width: 80px;
 }
 
-/* Hide default checkbox input */
+/* Hide default checkbox input */
 .mario-block input {
     position: absolute;
     visibility: hidden;
     z-index: -1;
 }
 

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Now to target the label elements found inside the block:

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/* Style checkbox label accordingly */
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/* Style checkbox label accordingly */
 .mario-block label {
     background: #F88D2E;
     border: 4px solid #070000;
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     width: 100%;
 }
 

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Next we style our included .dots elements to be placed in the four corners of each block:

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.mario-block .dot {
     background: #070000;
     height: 5px;
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     right: 4px;
 }
 

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Punch-able block

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Now we need to include the "question mark" SVG and custom CSS for the interactive Mario block. You can download a copy of the custom svg question mark I created.

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Punch-able block

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Now we need to include the “question mark” SVG and custom CSS for the interactive Mario block. You can download a copy of the custom svg question mark I created.

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.mario-block--question label {
     cursor: pointer;
 }
 .mario-block--question .question-mark {
-    background-image: url('/public/images/mario-block-question-mark.svg');
+    background-image: url('/public/images/mario-block-question-mark.svg');
     background-position: center;
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-size: 40px;
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     z-index: 1;
 }
 

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The last piece

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The last piece

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The last item we need to design is the checked state of the interactive question mark block. The extra inner dark dashes will be added as pseudo elements:

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/* Mario block in `checked` state */
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/* Mario block in `checked` state */
 .mario-block input:checked + label {
     background: #885818;
     box-shadow: inset -4px -4px 0 #68400B, inset 4px 4px 0 #FAB89B;
 }
 
-/* Hide both the default dots and question mark svg on checked */
+/* Hide both the default dots and question mark svg on checked */
 .mario-block input:checked + label .dot,
 .mario-block input:checked + label .question-mark {
     display: none;
 }
 
-/* Shared pseudo element styling */
+/* Shared pseudo element styling */
 .mario-block input:checked + label:before,
 .mario-block input:checked + label:after {
-    content: '';
+    content: '';
     height: 20px;
     position: absolute;
     transform: rotate(45deg);
     width: 20px;
 }
 
-/* Right dash */
+/* Right dash */
 .mario-block input:checked + label:before {
     border-right: 4px solid #070000;
     right: 18px;
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     transform: rotate(45deg);
 }
 
-/* Left dash */
+/* Left dash */
 .mario-block input:checked + label:after {
     border-left: 4px solid #070000;
     left: 18px;
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     transform: rotate(-45deg);
 }
 

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That's it!

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Taking it further

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As always, you can take this concept and flesh it out even further. I was trying to mimic the "pixel" style of the original Mario games, but you could make the lighting and depth more realistic with some extra subtle gradients or filter properties.

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That’s it!

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Taking it further

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As always, you can take this concept and flesh it out even further. I was trying to mimic the “pixel” style of the original Mario games, but you could make the lighting and depth more realistic with some extra subtle gradients or filter properties.