How to Add Border to a Container with Transparent Gaps in Between

How to add border to a container with transparent gaps in between

You can use multiple linear-gradient images as background for the parent div container like shown in the below snippet. This is one way to achieve it without adding any extra elements.

The background need not be a solid color. This approach can support transparency. The only thing you would need to make note of here is that since we are using percentages in the linear-gradient, the gap will increase as the height/width increases (and vice-versa). You can see this by using the "Full Page" option.

The transform: translateX(-50%), translateY(-50%) on the text containers are for vertical and horizontal centering of the content within the space.

body {

  background-image: radial-gradient(circle, #3F9CBA 0%, #153346 100%);

}

p {

  color: #ffffff;

  font-size: 16px;

  text-align: center;

  padding: 30px;

}

.steps-frame-1 {

  position: relative;

  height: 30vw;

  width: 75vw;

  margin: 20px;

  background-image: linear-gradient(to right, beige 5%, transparent 5%, transparent 20%, beige 20%), linear-gradient(to bottom, beige 45%, transparent 45%, transparent 55%, beige 55%), linear-gradient(to bottom, beige 45%, transparent 45%, transparent 55%, beige 55%);

  background-size: 100% 2px, 2px 100%, 2px 100%;

  background-position: top left, top left, top right;

  background-repeat: no-repeat;

  border-bottom: 2px solid beige;

}

.left-text,

.right-text {

  position: absolute;

  top: 50%;

  height: 20px;

  color: beige;

}

.left-text {

  left: 0%;

  transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);

}

.right-text {

  right: 0%;

  transform: translateX(50%) translateY(-50%);

}

.top-text {

  position: absolute;

  top: 0%;

  left: 12.5%;

  content: url(http://www.planetcassandra.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GitHub_Logo.png);

  width: 15%;

  transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);

}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prefixfree/1.0.7/prefixfree.min.js"></script>

<div class="steps-frame-1">

  <div class="inner">

    <p>content Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy.</p>

  </div>

  <div class='top-text'></div>

  <div class='left-text'>Text</div>

  <div class='right-text'>Text</div>

</div>

CSS circle - possible to add a transparent gap between border and background color?

You can achieve that with a pseudo element (.circle::after) and the following (or similar) settings:

.container {

  height: 100px;

  background: url('https://picsum.photos/536/354');

}

.circle {

  top: 20px;

  left: 20px;

  width: 50px;

  height: 50px;

  border-radius: 50%;

  background: red;

  position: relative;

  box-sizing: border-box;

}

.circle::after {

  content: '';

  position: absolute;

  box-sizing: border-box;

  border: 3px solid red;

  border-radius: 50%;

  width: calc(100% + 16px);

  height: calc(100% + 16px);

  left: -8px;

  top: -8px;

}

<div class="container">

  <div class="circle"></div>

</div>

How to create a custom border with a gap?

You can use a pseudo element absolutely positioned in your container with a background color that matches whatever the background of your page is.

div {

  height: 100px;

  border: 1px solid black;

  position: relative;

}

div:after {

  position: absolute;

  top: -1px; left: 50%;

  transform: translateX(-50%);

  content: '';

  background: #fff;

  width: 100px;

  height: 1px;

}

<div></div>

Creating space between an element and its border

I ended up using the multiple css technique (here), and using border-color: transparent to create a transparent spacing between the element and its border.

CSS : add space in border corner

You could do it using the before and after pseudo selectors:

.top-left-corner {

    top:0;

    left:0;

    position: absolute;

    height: 70px;

    width: 70px;

}

.top-left-corner:after {

  content:'';

  position:absolute;

  bottom:0;

  left:0;

  right:20px; /*change this for the size of the gap*/

  border-bottom: 1px solid #7a7a7a;

}

.top-left-corner:before {

  content:'';

  position:absolute;

  top:0;

  right:0;

  bottom:20px;     /*change this for the size of the gap*/

  border-right: 1px solid #7a7a7a;

}

<div class="top-left-corner"></div>

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