Summary  
This chapter explains how to apply CSS transform skew functions (skew, skewX, skewY) to deviate an element’s shape along the x- or y-axis by specified degree angles.

General domain of usage  
Front-end web design

`skew()` allows us to deviate an element's sides to the coordinate axes on a specific angle. The angle must be specified in degrees (`deg`). Also, we can determine the skew only for the x-axis or y-axis. The syntax is following:
```css
transform: skew(X_angle, Y_angle);
transform: skewX(angle);
transform: skewY(angle);
```
- `skew()` accepts 2 values. The `X_angle` value specifies the skew angle for the x-axis. The `Y_angle` value specifies the skew angle for the y-axis. If we don't set the second value (`Y_angle`), the browser understands it as `skewX()`;
- `skewX(angle)` specifies the skew along the x-axis;
- `skewY(angle)` specifies the skew along the y-axis.

Let's run the following example to see  what we can get with the help of skewing:


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