Dashed border animation in css3 animation

Question

I saw this article http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/BorderAnimationSVG/

I want to add this in my WP blog. So that each new post div have this animation on its border. B

Answer 1

This much is possible with CSS and is pretty simple when using multiple backgrounds and changing their positions using animations.

.border {
  height: 100px;
  width: 200px;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%);
  background-repeat: repeat-x, repeat-x, repeat-y, repeat-y;
  background-size: 16px 4px, 16px 4px, 4px 16px, 4px 16px;
  background-position: 0px 0px, 212px 116px, 0px 116px, 216px 0px;
  padding: 10px;
  transition: background-position 2s;
}
.border:hover{
    background-position: 212px 0px, 0px 116px, 0px 0px, 216px 116px;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prefixfree/1.0.7/prefixfree.min.js"></script>
<div class="border">Some text</div>

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Here is a sample with continuous movement of the borders right from the page load.

.border {
  height: 100px;
  width: 200px;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%);
  background-repeat: repeat-x, repeat-x, repeat-y, repeat-y;
  background-size: 15px 4px, 15px 4px, 4px 15px, 4px 15px;
  background-position: 0px 0px, 200px 100px, 0px 100px, 200px 0px;
  padding: 10px;
  animation: border-dance 4s infinite linear;
}
@keyframes border-dance {
  0% {
    background-position: 0px 0px, 300px 116px, 0px 150px, 216px 0px;
  }
  100% {
    background-position: 300px 0px, 0px 116px, 0px 0px, 216px 150px;
  }
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prefixfree/1.0.7/prefixfree.min.js"></script>
<div class="border">Some text</div>

Credits to web-tiki for helping to fix the slight distortion that was originally present at the end of each loop of the animation.