How do I create a circle or square with just CSS - with a hollow center?

Question

It should just basically be an outline of the square or circle - that I can style accordingly (i.e. change the color to whatever I want, change the thickness of the border,

Answer 1

i don't know of a simple css(2.1 standard)-only solution for circles, but for squares you can do easily:

.squared {
    border: 2x solid black;
}

then, use the following html code: