How to increase space between dotted border dots
Here's a trick I've used on a recent project to achieve nearly anything I want with horizontal borders. I use <hr/>
each time I need an horizontal border. The basic way to add a border to this hr is something like
hr {border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;}
But if you want to take control of the border and, for example increase, the space between dots, you may try something like this:
hr {
height:14px; /* specify a height for this hr */
overflow:hidden;
}
And in the following, you create your border (here's an example with dots)
hr:after {
content:".......................................................................";
letter-spacing: 4px; /* Use letter-spacing to increase space between dots*/
}
This also means that you can add text-shadow to the dots, gradients etc. Anything you want...
Well, it works really great for horizontal borders. If you need vertical ones, you may specify a class for another hr and use the CSS3 rotation
property.
This trick works for both horizontal and vertical borders:
/*Horizontal*/
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, black 33%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%);
background-position: bottom;
background-size: 3px 1px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
/*Vertical*/
background-image: linear-gradient(black 33%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%);
background-position: right;
background-size: 1px 3px;
background-repeat: repeat-y;
You can adjust the size with background-size and the proportion with the linear-gradient percentages. In this example I have a dotted line of 1px dots and 2px spacing. This way you can have multiple dotted borders too using multiple backgrounds.
Try it in this JSFiddle or take a look at the code snippet example:
div {
padding: 10px 50px;
}
.dotted {
border-top: 1px #333 dotted;
}
.dotted-gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #333 40%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 20%);
background-position: top;
background-size: 3px 1px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
.dotted-spaced {
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #333 10%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0%);
background-position: top;
background-size: 10px 1px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
.left {
float: left;
padding: 40px 10px;
background-color: #F0F0DA;
}
.left.dotted {
border-left: 1px #333 dotted;
border-top: none;
}
.left.dotted-gradient {
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #333 40%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 20%);
background-position: left;
background-size: 1px 3px;
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
.left.dotted-spaced {
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #333 10%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0%);
background-position: left;
background-size: 1px 10px;
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
<div>no
<br>border</div>
<div class='dotted'>dotted
<br>border</div>
<div class='dotted-gradient'>dotted
<br>with gradient</div>
<div class='dotted-spaced'>dotted
<br>spaced</div>
<div class='left'>no
<br>border</div>
<div class='dotted left'>dotted
<br>border</div>
<div class='dotted-gradient left'>dotted
<br>with gradient</div>
<div class='dotted-spaced left'>dotted
<br>spaced</div>