25 CSS Speech Bubbles
This CSS Speech Bubbles collection is your complete guide to creating responsive, technically advanced, and visually diverse dialog elements. We demonstrate current techniques: utilizing CSS Container Queries for container-size adaptation and clip-path: polygon() for forming unique angled shapes and pure CSS tails. The key technical focus is on pure CSS solutions: from creating single-element 3D bubbles and “thought” bubbles to mimicking messenger styles (e.g., iMessage). Master these techniques to deliver a responsive, expressive, and semantically clean dialog UX, including pixel art and comic-style animations.
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Responsive Speech Bubbles using CSS Container Queries
A stylish, pure CSS solution for creating speech bubbles with custom tails using the :after pseudo-element and the advanced clip-path: polygon() property to give the content frame a unique, angled edge shape.
#1139 - Testimonial Card with Image
A speech-bubble style testimonial card constructed using absolute positioning for layout layering.
#1157 - Testimonial Card with Profile Image
A conversational testimonial card styled as a speech bubble, leveraging the CSS border hack to generate the geometric pointer.
Chat UI 2.0
A responsive group chat interface modeled after modern messaging apps, utilizing Flexbox for message alignment and CSS pseudo-elements to craft speech bubbles.
Single-element 3D Speech Bubble
A modular “speech bubble” component where the common shape is defined via @extend, and the tail is created with the classic CSS trick of layering two border triangles. Color variations are procedurally generated with an SCSS @each loop, making the code scalable and DRY.
Comic Director Splash Animation
A dynamic splash screen where the layer reveal choreography is built on transform and transition-delay, applied to each element via :nth-child. The final layer “explodes” spectacularly using @keyframes and a custom cubic-bezier function, with the entire animation optimized for hardware acceleration.
