CSS Border/Outline With Outside Padding

Question

I am trying to create a reusable div css class that I can use to highlight quotes in articles I am writing on my campaign website. When debugging in Visual Studio using Chrome (or Firefox) I get the desired result:

As you can see there is a silver border, but padding around it.

My CSS class is:

.articleQuote {
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif;
    font-size: 20px;
    color: navy;
    padding: 25px 25px 25px 25px;
    outline-style: solid;
    outline-color: silver;
    outline-width: 1px;
    outline-offset: -10px;
    text-align: center;
}

However, in Internet Explorer no padding on the border occurs. Seems like outline-offset is ignored.

Link to article on my website

How can I get a cross-browser class set up that will produce the desired result?

Answer 1

outline-offset is not supported in Internet Explorer.

You could use a combination of outline and border to achieve the same effect.

Here border is used for the silver line and outline is used for the white space surrounding the element.

 body { background: #fffacf; padding: 15px; } .articleQuote { background-color: #FFFFFF; font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: navy; padding: 25px 25px 25px 25px; outline-style: solid; outline-color: white; outline-width: 10px; text-align: center; border: 1px solid silver; } 

 <div class="articleQuote"> "80% of North Carolinians polled were in favor of legalizing medical marijuana in the state." </div> 

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Another option is to use box-shadow instead of border or outline. This allows you to have as many "borders" as you like.

 body { background: #e6e6e6; padding: 15px; } .articleQuote { background-color: #FFFFFF; font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: navy; padding: 25px 25px 25px 25px; text-align: center; margin: 30px 0; box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px silver, 0 0 0 10px white; } .crazy-border { margin: 50px 10px; box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px red, 0 0 0 4px white, 0 0 0 6px orange, 0 0 0 8px white, 0 0 0 10px gold, 0 0 0 12px white, 0 0 0 14px green, 0 0 0 16px white, 0 0 0 18px blue, 0 0 0 20px white, 0 0 0 22px purple; } 

 <div class="articleQuote"> "80% of North Carolinians polled were in favor of legalizing medical marijuana in the state." </div> <div class="articleQuote crazy-border"> "80% of North Carolinians polled were in favor of legalizing medical marijuana in the state." </div> 

Answer 2

Try nested divs.

HTML:

<div class="article-quote-outer">
  <div class="article-quote-inner">
    {text goes here}
  </div>
</div>

CSS:

.article-quote-outer {
  padding: 12px;
  background-color: white;
}

.article-quote-inner {
  border: 1px solid silver;
  padding: 15px;
}

Example: JSFIDDLE

Answer 3

If the desired result is no white space surrounding the silver border, delete the line:

outline-offset: -10px;