CSS Shapes

.example-container {
  text-align: left;
  padding: 20px;
}

#example-element {
  float: left;
  width: 150px;
  height: 150px;
  margin: 20px;
  background-image: linear-gradient(
    50deg,
    rgb(77 26 103),
    transparent 80%,
    transparent
  );
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="example-container">
    <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
    We had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house,
    after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock. This athletic young Frenchman
    belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up "ballooning"
    as a pastime. After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found
    in ordinary sports, even those of "automobiling" at a breakneck speed, the
    members of the "Aéro Club" now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
    kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to
    find on earth.
  </div>
</section>

.example-container {
  text-align: left;
  padding: 20px;
}

#example-element {
  float: left;
  margin: 20px;
  width: 180px;
  height: 180px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background-color: rebeccapurple;
  shape-outside: circle(50%);
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="example-container">
    <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
    We had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house,
    after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock. This athletic young Frenchman
    belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up "ballooning"
    as a pastime. After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found
    in ordinary sports, even those of "automobiling" at a breakneck speed, the
    members of the "Aéro Club" now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
    kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to
    find on earth.
  </div>
</section>

.example-container {
  text-align: left;
  padding: 20px;
}

#example-element {
  float: left;
  width: 150px;
  margin: 20px;
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="example-container">
    <img
      class="transition-all"
      id="example-element"
      src="https://developer.mozilla.org/shared-assets/images/examples/round-balloon.png"
      width="150" />
    We had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house,
    after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock. This athletic young Frenchman
    belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up "ballooning"
    as a pastime. After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found
    in ordinary sports, even those of "automobiling" at a breakneck speed, the
    members of the "Aéro Club" now seek in the air, where they indulge in all
    kinds of daring feats, the nerve-racking excitement that they have ceased to
    find on earth.
  </div>
</section>

#default-example {
  background: #ffee99;
}

#example-element {
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, #ff5522, #0055ff);
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
</section>

#default-example {
  background: #ffee99;
}

#example-element {
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, #ff5522, #0055ff);
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
</section>

#default-example {
  background: #ffee99;
}

#example-element {
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, #ff5522, #0055ff);
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
</section>

#default-example {
  background: #ffee99;
}

#example-element {
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, #ff5522, #0055ff);
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
</section>

#default-example {
  background: #ffee99;
}

#example-element {
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, #ff5522, #0055ff);
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
</section>

.container {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 15px;
  text-align: center;
}

.path {
  width: 40px;
  height: 40px;
  background-color: red;
  position: absolute;
  animation: move 10s linear infinite;
}

.rect-path-1 {
  offset-path: rect(50px 150px 200px 50px round 20%);
}

.rect-path-2 {
  offset-path: rect(50px auto 200px 50px round 20%);
}

.rect-path-3 {
  offset-path: rect(50px auto 200px auto);
}

@keyframes move {
  0% {
    offset-distance: 0%;
  }
  100% {
    offset-distance: 100%;
  }
}

<div class="container">
  Rectangular path 1
  <div class="path rect-path-1">→</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
  Rectangular path 2
  <div class="path rect-path-2">→</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
  Rectangular path 3
  <div class="path rect-path-3">→</div>
</div>

body {
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  display: flex;
}

.container {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 250px;
  height: 250px;
  border: 2px dotted green;
  margin: 20px;
}

@supports not (offset-path: shape(from 0 0, move to 0 0)) {
  body::after {
    content: "Your browser doesn't support the `shape()` function yet.";
    background-color: wheat;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 1rem 0;
  }
}

.shape {
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  background: #2bc4a2;
  position: absolute;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 50px;
  animation: move 6s infinite linear;
}

.shape1 {
  offset-path: shape(
    from 30% 60px,
    curve to 180px 180px with 90px 190px,
    close,
    move by 0px 150px,
    hline by 40%
  );
}

.shape2 {
  offset-path: shape(
    from 50px 90px,
    hline to 8em,
    move to 50px 90px,
    vline by 20%,
    close
  );
}

@keyframes move {
  0% {
    offset-distance: 0%;
  }
  100% {
    offset-distance: 100%;
    background-color: hotpink;
  }
}

<div class="container">
  Using <code>&lt;curve-command&gt;</code>
  <div class="shape shape1">>></div>
</div>

<div class="container">
  Using <code>&lt;move-command&gt;</code> and
  <code>&lt;hvline-command&gt;</code>
  <div class="shape shape2">>></div>
</div>

.container {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 30px;
  text-align: center;
}

.path {
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  position: absolute;
  background-color: magenta;
  animation: move 10s linear infinite;
}

.xywh-path-1 {
  offset-path: xywh(20px 20px 100% 100% round 10%);
}

.xywh-path-2 {
  offset-path: xywh(20px 30% 150% 200%);
}

@keyframes move {
  0% {
    offset-distance: 0%;
  }
  100% {
    offset-distance: 100%;
  }
}

<div class="container">
  Rectangular path 1
  <div class="path xywh-path-1">→</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
  Rectangular path 2
  <div class="path xywh-path-2">→</div>
</div>

#default-example {
  background: #ffee99;
}

#example-element {
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, #ff5522, #0055ff);
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element"></div>
</section>