With more sophisticated CSS you can greatly enhance your website`s UI. CSS border properties is a powerful tool that allows you to give your border a unique, individual style. So in this post we`ve collected some examples of various CSS border styles and animations for inspiration.

Pure CSS3 animated border

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Animated CSS Gradient Border

Pen By Mike Schultz

CSS Border transitions

Pen By Giana

Corner Border Link

Pen By Vian Esterhuizen

Border-gradient mixin

Pen By John Grishin

CSS Gradient Rounded Borders

Pen By George W. Park

Bounce On Hover

Pen By Marcello Africano

Border loading indicators

Pen By Oliver Kühn

border-animation-css

Pen By uiswarup

[PURE CSS] border animation without svg

Pen By Rplus

CSS clip-path border

Pen By Bennett Feely

18 Simple Styles for Horizontal Rules (hr CSS Design)

Pen By Ibrahim Jabbari

Fancy Border Using border-image & SVG

Pen By Shane Murphy

Pure CSS Zigzag Border

Pen By Charlotte Dann

Text in a border

Pen By Rico Sta. Cruz

A one line border-radius technique

Pen By Tiffany Rayside

Stripped Diagonal Button Single Border

Pen By Zeindelf

border-radius

Pen By Nils

How do I get a custom colored underline that will span multiple lines?

Pen By Will King

Fancy border button

Pen By Tobias Reich

Gradient border in pure CSS

Pen By Erik Martin Jordan

Gradient with Wrapper

Pen By Chris Coyier

Great button animation

Pen By Valentin Galmand

Fancy Slider

Pen By Nikolay Talanov

CSS line behind title text

Pen By Eric Rasch

Canvas Per Element Border Animation

Pen By Jack Rugile

True dotted borders using svg and border-image

Pen By lucas lemonnier