How can I show only corner borders?

Question

I\'m wondering if it\'s possible in CSS or jQuery to make a border but only for corner. Something like this:

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Answer 1

I found this question, but I was not satisfied with the border-radius approach: As I was using more thick borders, the effect was not as good as I wanted to. I managed to create another solution, without images, and without any extra markup:

    .box {
        /* fake border */
        position: relative;
        overflow: hidden;
        box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 0px 10px green;
        padding: 1em;
    }

    .box:before {
        /* this element will hide the fake border on the top and bottom */
        content:'';         
        display: block;
        position: absolute;
        border-top:10px solid white;
        border-bottom:10px solid white;
        /* height = border-width x2 */
        height:calc(100% - 20px); 
        top:0;
        /* width = size of fake-border x2 */
        width: calc(100% - 36px);
        /* left = size of fake-border */
        left:18px;
    }

    .box:after {
        /* this element will hide the fake border on the left and right */
        /* the rules for width, heigth, top and left will be the opposite of the former element */
        display: block;
        position: absolute;
        content:'';
        border-right:10px solid white;
        border-left:10px solid white;
        height:calc(100% - 36px);
        width: calc(100% - 20px);
        top:18px;
        left: 0;
    }

Here's a JSFiddle with this example: https://jsfiddle.net/t6dbmq3e/ Hope it helps.