How to add border to a container with transparent gaps in between

Question

Here is an image of the design which I am trying to achieve with only CSS.

Answer 1

I doubt there is a native way to cut borders, so you have to give the illusion that it is a border with more containers.

Something like this should suffice. Nothing fancy, so browser support won't be an issue either:

body {
    background: black;
}
p {
    color: #ffffff;
    font-size: 16px;
    text-align:center;
    padding:30px;
}
.steps-frame-1 {
    position: relative;
    margin-top: 60px;
    width: 50%;
    height: 200px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
}
.borderColour {
     background-color: #fff;   
}
.borderTopLeft {
     position: absolute;
    top:0;
    left: 0;
    width: 10%;
    height:2px;
}
.borderTopRight {
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    right: 0;
    width: 80%;
    height:2px;
}
.borderRightTop {
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    right: 0;
    width: 80%;
    height:2px;
}
.borderRightTop {
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    right: 0;
    width: 2px;
    height: 45%;
}
.borderRightBottom {
    position: absolute;
    bottom:0;
    right: 0;
    width: 2px;
    height:45%;
}
.borderLeftTop {
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    left: 0;
    width: 2px;
    height: 45%;
}
.borderLeftBottom {
    position: absolute;
    bottom:0;
    left: 0;
    width: 2px;
    height:45%;
}
.borderBottom {
    position: absolute;
    bottom:0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height:2px;
}

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

        
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http://jsfiddle.net/ddn53xsf/3/