I\'m attempting to style heading text similar to how your default legend text appears in fieldsets; that is to say, I\'d like a strikethrough-like line to come up to, but no
body { padding-top: 100px; }
div.parent {
text-align: center;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
div.parent div {
display: inline-block;
margin-top: -0.8em;
padding: 0 0.5em;
background: #fff;
}
<body>
<div class="parent">
<div>My Text Here</div>
</div>
</body>
This is a fluid-width solution that matches your design and should be ok in IE7 (though I'll admit I didn't check). There are a couple of downsides:
If you don't need it to be fluid-width, onteria_'s solution is probably your best bet.
With flexbox being supported by all the latest browsers out there, and it being five years since the IE8 requirement was mentioned by the author, I wanted to have some fun building a new solution using that.
A variety of examples getting more complicated:
https://jsfiddle.net/0mL79b4h/1/
https://jsfiddle.net/0mL79b4h/2/
div {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
div:before,
div:after {
border: 1px solid #000000;
border-radius: 2px;
height: 2px;
display: block;
content: "";
flex: 1;
width: 100%;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
margin: 8px;
}
<div>
<h1>Example Text</h1>
</div>
<div>
<h1>Multi-Line<br>Example Text</h1>
</div>
Pros:
Cons:
Edit:
<h2><strike> </strike>Your Text Here<strike> </strike></h2>
Here's how you can do it with a few simple tags and non-breaking spaces.
I'd use an image and call it a day, but this seemed to work for me:
fieldset {
border-right: 0px;
border-left: 0px;
border-bottom: 0px;
width: 200px;
}
legend {
margin: 0 25%;
}
<fieldset>
<legend>My Text Here</legend>
</fieldset>
That's the only way I could figure out how to do it with css. Note the width is fixed. Once again I wouldn't do this myself.