Hide part of a border in CSS?

Question

I have a few simple CSS classes for a panel with a header. It works great when the background is a fixed color because I have to use that color to hide the border behind the

Answer 1

This is a common problem.

My solution is:

1. Set the background of .panel-header as the same of the background image.
2. Set z-index: 0 to make it to the top layer.
3. Adjust the background-position property.

When you adjust the background-position, you can also use jQuery to calculate the offset to make it accurate.

Hope it helps, see the snippet.

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The effective code is just to add:

.panel-header {
    z-index: 0;
    background-image: url(http://placekitten.com/510/200);
    background-position: -66px -38px;
}

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The snnipet:

.panel {
    border: 2px solid #000000;
    padding: 1em;
    margin: 1em;
    display: block;
}

.panel-header {
    position: relative;
    top: -1.5em;
    // here!
    z-index: 0;
    background-image: url(http://placekitten.com/510/200);
    background-position: -66px -38px;
    padding-left: 0.4em;
    padding-right: 0.4em;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
    font-weight: bold;
}

.panel-content {
    margin-top: -0.5em; 
}

<div class="panel">
  <span class="panel-header">
    Title Goes Here
    </span>
  <p class="panel-content">Glorious baklava ex librus hup hey ad infinitum. Non sequitur condominium facile et geranium incognito.</p>
  </div>

<hr/>

<div style="background-image: url(http://placekitten.com/510/200); padding: 2em;">
  <div class="panel">
    <span class="panel-header">
      Title Goes Here
      </span>
    <p class="panel-content">Glorious baklava ex librus hup hey ad infinitum. Non sequitur condominium facile et geranium incognito.</p>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 2

here's the sample of what you need:

Firs of all, you need a container div with your Background (i've grabbed one from internet for this example).

After this, you need to use and snippets from HTML.

Your CSS

div {
    padding: 30px;
    background: url(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkAuRoZnkLBZlEYtgL5GJ5w_2Tufpxh5PqkOf-Negy7eL-JGC5Mk-DW-I) no-repeat  center center;
    background-size: cover;
}

fieldset {
    border: 2px solid black;
    padding: 10px;
}

Your HTML

<div>
 <fieldset>
  <legend>Personalia:</legend>
  <p>some text here</p>
 </fieldset>
</div>

Here you can see the Fiddle

Answer 3

I think this is a more useable version, that only requires one extra div and will be transferable to almost any image. Plus and this is a big plus, no extra image section would be required. It's reusable!

.panel-wrapper {
    overflow: hidden;
}

.panel {
    border: 2px solid #000000;
    border-top: 0;
    padding: 1em;
    margin: 1em 0 0;
}

.panel-header {
    position: relative;
    top: -1.5em;
    padding-left: 0.4em;
    padding-right: 0.4em;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
    font-weight: bold;
}
.panel-header:before,
.panel-header:after {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    height: 2px;
    background: #000;
    top: 50%;
}
.panel-header:before {
    width: 100px;
    left: -100px;
}
.panel-header:after {
    width: 1000px;
    right: -1000px;
}
.panel-content {
    margin-top: -0.5em; 
}

<div>
    <div class="panel-wrapper">
  <div class="panel">
    <span class="panel-header">
      Title Goes Here
      </span>
    <p class="panel-content">Glorious baklava ex librus hup hey ad infinitum. Non sequitur condominium facile et geranium incognito.</p>
    </div>
    </div>
</div>

<div style="background-image: url(http://placekitten.com/510/200); padding: 2em;">
    <div class="panel-wrapper">
  <div class="panel">
    <span class="panel-header">
      Title Goes Here
      </span>
    <p class="panel-content">Glorious baklava ex librus hup hey ad infinitum. Non sequitur condominium facile et geranium incognito.</p>
    </div>
    </div>
</div>