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Boxes with Colored Borders and Text.<\/h1>\n

A Simple CSS Tutorial<\/h2>\n

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I\u2019m going to explain how to make an asymmetric bordered text box like this using CSS:<\/p>\n

Hello! I\u2019m a very stylish box<\/p>\n

If you also want the inner text to include a link with a different style, you can check my blog post:
\nHow to create a new style for links in WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n

To start, in my CSS stylesheet style.css<\/em>, I\u2019ll create a new style called “box” and assign the basic properties:<\/p>\n

.box { \r\nfont-family: sans-serif; \r\nfont-size: 18px; \r\nfont-weight: 400; \r\ncolor: #ffffff; \r\nbackground:#ee0467 }<\/pre>\n
I\u2019ve set the font type, size, weight, and color, as well as the background color of the box.<\/p>\n
Now, in my HTML editor (in WordPress: the text editor<\/em> of the page), I\u2019m going to test the style I just created by using the conventional class<\/em> attribute:<\/p>\n
<div class=\"box\">Hello! I\u2019m a very stylish box<\/div><\/pre>\n
Or the class<\/em> attribute for paragraphs:<\/p>\n
<p class=\"box\">Hello! I\u2019m a very stylish box<\/p><\/pre>\n
And the result will be this:<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s continue adding properties to our text box. Remember that on this website<\/a> you can find a good list of CSS properties.<\/p>\n
To prevent the text from being “stuck” to the box edges, we add some breathing space using padding. You can give a general padding or break it down for better control. Here, I\u2019ll set padding of 20px on all sides:<\/p>\n
padding: 20px;<\/pre>\n
But if you want to break it down it would be like this:<\/p>\n
padding-top: 20px;\r\npadding-right: 20px;\r\npadding-bottom: 20px;\r\npadding-left: 20px;<\/pre>\n
Or like this:<\/p>\n
padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;<\/pre>\n
Then we give margin to our box using the margin<\/em> property:<\/p>\n
margin: 0 0 25px;<\/pre>\n
Finally, we define the behavior of box elements<\/a> when they don\u2019t fit their container using the overflow<\/em> property:<\/p>\n
overflow: hidden;<\/pre>\n
In this case, anything outside the box will be hidden, but we can fix it by using the div<\/em> tag for paragraphs<\/em>. This way, nothing will overflow because the box will contain the entire paragraph.<\/p>\n
Our code so far looks like this:<\/p>\n
.box {\r\nfont-family: sans-serif;\r\nfont-size: 18px;\r\nfont-weight: 400;\r\ncolor: #ffffff;\r\nbackground: #889ccf;\r\nmargin: 0 0 25px;\r\noverflow: hidden;\r\npadding: 20px;\r\n}<\/pre>\n
Our resulting box so far looks like this:<\/p>\n
\"\"
\nNow I\u2019m going to add the border-radius<\/em> property so the box has rounded corners. To make it easy, I recommend using the tool CSSmatic<\/a> which automatically generates border styles while previewing them. It also lets us set border thickness, color, and background.<\/p>\n
I decided to give a 35px radius to the top-left and top-right corners to create asymmetric boxes. I also added a 2px border in a darker tone:<\/p>\n
border-radius: 35px 0px 35px 0px;\r\n-moz-border-radius: 35px 0px 35px 0px;\r\n-webkit-border-radius: 35px 0px 35px 0px;\r\nborder: 2px solid #5878ca;\r\n<\/pre>\n
My box is almost ready:<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
Looking at the result, I\u2019m going to change some properties and add some more to adjust the design.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll make the text inside the box centered by default using text-align<\/em> and change the font-family<\/em> to a geometric sans-serif font, Century Gothic<\/em> :<\/p>\n
text-align: center;\r\nfont-family: Century Gothic,CenturyGothic,AppleGothic,sans-serif;\r\n<\/pre>\n
With these last changes, I have the box I was looking for. In my WordPress HTML editor, I call my box using the div class<\/em> tag:<\/p>\n
<div class=\"box\">Hello! I\u2019m a very stylish box<\/div>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Now I can see the final result:<\/p>\n
Hello! I\u2019m a very stylish box<\/p>\n
\/*----------- BOX ----------- *\/\r\n.box { \r\nfont-family: Century Gothic,CenturyGothic,AppleGothic,sans-serif; \r\ncolor: #ffffff; \r\nfont-size: 18px; \r\nfont-weight: 400; \r\ntext-align: center; \r\nbackground: #889ccf; \r\nmargin: 0 0 25px; \r\noverflow: hidden; \r\npadding: 20px; \r\nborder-radius: 35px 0px 35px 0px; \r\n-moz-border-radius: 35px 0px 35px 0px; \r\n-webkit-border-radius: 35px 0px 35px 0px; \r\nborder: 2px solid #5878ca;\r\n}<\/pre>\n
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