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<!-- Youtube video tutorial! -->
<!-- My first ever screen-recording/tutorial haha : ) Give it a view please! -->
<a class="video" href="https://bit.ly/YzWdcy" target="_blank">Video Tutorial</a>

.arrow {
  position: absolute;
  padding: 3rem; /* Arrow size */
          box-shadow: 1px -1px 0 1px plum inset;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 2px -2px plum inset;
  border: solid transparent;
  border-width: 0 0 2rem 2rem;
  transition: 0.2s;
}

.arrow:hover {
          box-shadow: 2px -2px 0 2px orchid inset;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 4px -4px orchid inset;
}

.arrow-up    { transform:rotate(135deg) }
.arrow-right { transform:rotate(225deg) }
.arrow-down  { transform:rotate(-45deg) }
.arrow-left  { transform:rotate(45deg) }




/* Codepen layout: */
html { height:100% }
body { background-color:lavender }
.arrow { top:50%;margin:-67px 0 0 -67px;left:35% }
a:nth-child(2) { left:65% }

/* Video link: */
.video { font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;color:plum;top:2rem;left:2rem;position:absolute }
.video:hover { color:orchid }

// *****************************
//     UPDATE 03/24 5:32pm PST
// I came up with the break-through idea I had been hoping to come up with since the beginning: being able to remove the :before element but keep the better clickable area. The solution: An effing transparent border!!! So I've removed the entire :before element and it's 6 lines of code, and added a transparent border with 2 lines to the .arrow
// Yippee!!
// CSS before the update:
//
// .arrow {
//  box-shadow: -1px 1px 0 1px plum;
//  transition: .24s;
//   transform: rotate(45deg);
//    position: absolute;
//     padding: 50px;
//}
//.arrow:before {
//  position: absolute;
//   padding: 80%;
//   content: '';
//     right: -15%;
//       top: -15%;
//}
// *****************************
// Simple arrows.
// Let me know if you have ideas to make them better!!! : )
// NOTES:
// The border is there only to increase the clickable area. You can remove it and it will work perfectly fine, you'll just only be able to click "inside" the arrow, and not "around" it. If you add a background color you can see it and play with it's size if you want.
// The -webkit-box-shadow is there because without it it displays slightly different in webkit and you can see some of the shadow on the opposite side of the arrow.
// There might be an easier/lite-er way using a simple icon font or something like that, but that's no fun.
// Here's some CSS arrows you can use anywhere, play with, and change the size, color, hover state, and transition in half a second without having to touch anything else.
// Just make another class with a different degree of rotation to have other arrows pointing any direction.
// I experimented using before and after pseudo elements, just borders, and just box-shadows, but this box-shadow + border variation ended up being the one with the least code, yet also the most versatile since you can add multiple shadows and blurs if you want to get more creative.
// These experimentations were inspired by the arrow pens of Olivier Gorzalka - https://codepen.io/clearideaz/pen/tGbIi and Steffen Gramberg - https://codepen.io/minustalent/pen/Frhaw
// @vsync (codepen.io/yairEO) pressured me to make them better : )