Text in Border CSS HTML

Question

I'd like to have a div that looks like this:

Is this possible to do with HTML + CSS? I will also be animating this div with jQuery. When the div is hidden I would like the title and the top line to show.

Answer 1

Yes, but it's not a div, it's a fieldset

fieldset {
    border: 1px solid #000;
}

<fieldset>
  <legend>AAA</legend>
</fieldset>

Answer 2

You can do something like this, where you set a negative margin on the h1 (or whatever header you are using)

div{
    height:100px;
    width:100px;
    border:2px solid black;
}

h1{
    width:30px;
    margin-top:-10px;
    margin-left:5px;
    background:white;
}

Note: you need to set a background as well as a width on the h1

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/ZgEMM/

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EDIT

To make it work with hiding the div, you could use some jQuery like this

$('a').click(function(){
    var a = $('h1').detach();
    $('div').hide();
    $(a).prependTo('body');    
});

(You will need to modify...)

Example #2: http://jsfiddle.net/ZgEMM/4/

Answer 3

I know a bit late to the party, however I feel the answers could do with some more investigation/input. I have managed to create the situation without using the fieldset tag - that is wrong anyway as if I'm not in a form then that isn't really what I should be doing.

/* Styles go here */

#info-block section {
    border: 2px solid black;
}

.file-marker > div {
    padding: 0 3px;
    height: 100px;
    margin-top: -0.8em;
    
}
.box-title {
    background: white none repeat scroll 0 0;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 0 2px;
    margin-left: 8em;
}

<aside id="info-block">
  <section class="file-marker">
    <div>
      <div class="box-title">
        Audit Trail
      </div>
      <div class="box-contents">
        <div id="audit-trail">
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </section>
</aside>

This can be viewed in this plunk:

Outline box with title

What this achieves is the following:

• no use of fieldsets.

• minimal use of CSS to create effect with just some paddings.

• Use of "em" margin top to create font relative title.

• use of display inline-block to achieve natural width around the text.

Anyway I hope that helps future stylers, you never know.

Answer 4

Text in Border with transparent text background

.box{
    background-image: url("https://i.stack.imgur.com/N39wV.jpg");
    width: 350px;
    padding: 10px;
}

/*begin first box*/
.first{
    width: 300px;
    height: 100px;
    margin: 10px;
    border-width: 0 2px 0 2px;
    border-color: #333;
    border-style: solid;
    position: relative;
}

.first span {
    position: absolute;
    display: flex;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    align-items: center;
}
.first .foo{
    top: -8px;
}
.first .bar{
    bottom: -8.5px;
}
.first span:before{
    margin-right: 15px;
}
.first span:after {
    margin-left: 15px;
}
.first span:before , .first span:after {
    content: ' ';
    height: 2px;
    background: #333;
    display: block;
    width: 50%;
}


/*begin second box*/
.second{
    width: 300px;
    height: 100px;
    margin: 10px;
    border-width: 2px 0 2px 0;
    border-color: #333;
    border-style: solid;
    position: relative;
}

.second span {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: center;
}
.second .foo{
    left: -15px;
}
.second .bar{
    right: -15.5px;
}
.second span:before{
    margin-bottom: 15px;
}
.second span:after {
    margin-top: 15px;
}
.second span:before , .second span:after {
    content: ' ';
    width: 2px;
    background: #333;
    display: block;
    height: 50%;
}

<div class="box">
    <div class="first">
        <span class="foo">FOO</span>
        <span class="bar">BAR</span>
    </div>

   <br>

    <div class="second">
        <span class="foo">FOO</span>
        <span class="bar">BAR</span>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 5

<fieldset>
  <legend> YOUR TITLE </legend>
  
  
  <p>
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, est et illum reformidans, at lorem propriae mei. Qui legere commodo mediocritatem no. Diam consetetur.
  </p>
</fieldset>

Answer 6

You can use a fieldset tag.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<form>
 <fieldset>
  <legend>Personalia:</legend>
  Name: <input type="text"><br>
  Email: <input type="text"><br>
  Date of birth: <input type="text">
 </fieldset>
</form>

</body>
</html>

Check this link: HTML Tag

Answer 7

For a duplicate, here another option with transform, no fieldset ( and rounded border required in the duplicates) :

Question

Help. I am not great at UX. I am creating an app in React and using Material UI for the look. I really want to create something like this

Where the "Some Title" is a dynamic field from my database as well as the contents. The thing I cannot figure out is what is the best (non skanky) way to add the title into the outline? Thoughts?

Answer position or transform can help you too :

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding:0;
  box-sizing:border-box;
}

.fieldset {
  border: solid;
  color: #353fff;
  border-radius: 1em;
  margin: 2em 1em 1em;
  padding:0 1em 1em;
}

.legend {
  transform: translatey(-50%);
  width: max-content;
  background: white;
  padding: 0 0.15em;
}

.fieldset li {
  list-style-type: " - ";
}

<div class="fieldset">
  <h1 class="legend">Some Title</h1>
  <ul>
    <li>Item</li>
    <li>Item</li>
    <li>Item</li>
    <li>Item</li>
  </ul>
</div>

Answer 8

If you are not in a position to add a field set, you can add a background to the element. In my situation, I had different colors in the input element and outside the input element, and also we have a hover color for the input element. So this is a fix I added linear-gradient background with outside color in the top half and transparent color in the bottom half. I added the transparent color to the bottom half inorder to see the hover color when hovered.

.class-name {
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #2a2b2d 50%, transparent 50%);
}

Answer 9

From a practical perspective, I think PeterS has the best answer. It's also presented in a very clear, didactical style.

Just to save others a few minutes converting it into more production-style code, I've done the following. Basically, it's what you would think you need: One div box inside another, with the outer div box providing the border, the inner providing the title contents with a negative margin shifting it up. A third div then contains the actual content.

This is the CSS:

   .outer-border-box {
border: 2px solid black; border-top:3px solid black;}


.label-source-box {
padding: 0 3px; height: 100px; margin-top: -0.8em; }

.box-title {
background: white none repeat scroll 0 0;
padding: 0 2px;
margin-left: 4em;
font-weight:700; font-size:18px; 
font-family: 'Avenir Next',Helvetica, sans-serif; }

This is the html:

    <div class="outer-border-box">
<div class="label-source-box">
<span class="box-title">Promotional </span>
<div class="box-contents">
<h2>this is the contents</h2>
</div> </div> </div>  

Answer 10

It is possible by using the legend tag. Refer to http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_legend.asp