Create a Double Border Image Effect Using CSS

Discussion

1. Eric Wendelin

   Nice effect, David! Also I like the MooTools logo on Sam’s hat.
2. Elmas

   Yes, this is a nice way of acomplishing that effect, i use it very often just with a larger padding. On one gallery i used white background, grayish border, 5px padding and then an aditional drop shadow effect (image). So the final result turns out to be perfect.
3. Иван

   I can think of a couple of browsers that do not support this and I ain’t gonna say they are both made by MS ;)
4. Elmas

   Can you be more specific with that ?

   I tested my way in most of the browsers (IE6, 7, FF2, 3, Opera, Safari etc.) and works like a charm. Only problem i can think of (would need to test that) is maybe the default img display:inline;
5. Catar4x

   I know this tip by css-globe 6 months ago.
   Use a black border and white background to have a nice effect.
6. Ahmed

   Very slick!
7. Mark Sanborn

   That is pretty nice. Never would have thought of using background and padding to create the inner grey “double” border.
8. Salmen

   Creare un bordo doppio per un immagine
   http://moukadesign.altervista.org/css-creare-un-bordo-doppio-per-un-immagine/
9. Иван

   @Elmas — it’s all about the right !DCOTYPE. If you manage to run IE 6 in standads mode — you will see the padding. If you do not manage, however, you will run the page in Quirks mode and not see the padding.

   The easiest way to trigger Quirks mode is to add a XML prologue or add anything but white space before the DOCTYPE e.g. comment ;)

   See at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode for quick info.
10. Bob

    Really cool, simple, elegant idea. Nice work.
11. Tim Novinger

    You can also use

    outline: 1px solid #000;

    to achieve the same effect.

    // Tim
12. Иван

    Outline is not cross-browser ;)
13. webhosting

    Thanks for sharing this
14. Jose

    He intentado crearlo en la web http://www.eyaculacion-precoz.info pero no he podido, me puedes ayudar?
15. John

    Um,

    
border-style: double;

16. Daniel

    You are the man. This is exactly what I needed. :) I’m trying to replace a heavy WordPress/plug-in setup with a custom display site, and this was the one thing I needed to replicate the behavior of my gallery plug-in.

    Thanks!
17. christopher

    I love your stuff, first of all. I’ve followed for a while. I came by this in a google search though and it doesn’t really solve the problem I was looking to solve at least. I mean it’s clever and all but I can’t use this in my current situation. For example, it’s not really a double border its just colored padding… I already have padding on the element I’m trying to style so this doesn’t work for anything unless you aren’t going to use padding or unless you use a workaround.
18. Matt William

    The CSS

    img.double-border { border:1px solid #ccc; padding:2px; background:#eee; }

    Copy Codeimg.double-border { border:1px solid #ccc; padding:2px; background:#eee; }
19. Red Beard

    much better than inline styling
20. Ansikt

    In sane browsers and IE >= 8, you can get a triple border effect by using outline in addition to this trick.
21. Y3 World

    nice, love to apply that on my sites. awesome sharing!
22. Vitor

    Wonderfull!!! :D