Incomplete borders around div

You can do this with :before and :after pseudo elements

Complete design Fiddle

.square {
  width: 200px;
  height: 300px;
  border-left: 1px solid gray;
  border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
  border-top: 1px solid gray;
  position: relative;
}

.square:before, .square:after {
  content: "";
  height: 20%;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  border-right: 1px solid gray;
}

.square:before {
  bottom: 0;
}
<div class="square"></div>

or SVG

line {
  stroke: #6996FB; 
  stroke-width: 2;
}

svg {
  overflow: visible;
}

button {
  padding: 10px 50px;
  border: none;
  color: white;
  margin-right: 10px;
  margin-top: 15px;
}

.btn-blue {
  background: #5D8CFF;
}

.btn-green {
  background: #33F1D9;
}

h3 {
  margin: 0;
}
<svg width="250" height="300" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
    <line x1="1" y1="1" x2="250" y2="1"></line>
    <line x1="0" y1="300" x2="250" y2="300"></line>
    <line x1="1" y1="1" x2="1" y2="300"></line>
    <line x1="249" y1="0" x2="249" y2="70"></line>
    <line x1="249" y1="230" x2="249" y2="300"></line>
    
    <foreignobject x="60" y="90" width="400" height="180">
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <h3>Lorem ipsum dolor sit <br> amet, consectetur adipisicing  elit. Suscipit</h3>
        <button class="btn-blue">Btn 1</button><button class="btn-green">Btn 2</button>
      </body>
    </foreignobject>
    
</svg>

This approach allows you to:

  • add any content and the borders will adapt around it regardless of height or width of the content
  • support transparent background and can be displayed over an image or non plain colors
  • doesn't add any unsemantic elements

It relies on 2 absolutely positioned pseudo elements and one div. The spacing between the content and the borders is controlled by the padding on the div :

div{
  position:relative;
  display:inline-block;
  padding:50px 100px;
  border-left:1px solid #000;
  text-align:center;
}
div:before, div:after{
  content:'';
  position:absolute;
  right:50%; left:0;
  height:50px;
  border-right:1px solid #000;
}
div:before{
  top:0;
  border-top:1px solid #000;
}
div:after{
  bottom:0;
  border-bottom:1px solid #000;
}
body{background:url('http://i.imgur.com/3IXm5qm.jpg');background-size:cover;}
<div>
  <h2>This is a very long title on<br/> 2 lines</h2>
  <button>Button</button>
  <p>Some text</p>
</div>

You can do with css pseudo ::after and ::before , something like this

.incomplete-box{
  border: solid 1px #fff;
  border-right: none;
  width: 100px;
  height: auto;
  position: relative;
}
.incomplete-box::after,
.incomplete-box::before{
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  height: 30%;
  width: 1px;
  background-color: #fff;
  right: 0;
}
.incomplete-box::after{
  top: 0;
}
.incomplete-box::before{
  bottom: 0;
}

Demo

Fixed width and height : https://jsfiddle.net/nikhilvkd/qt5ne3yw/

Auto width and height: https://jsfiddle.net/nikhilvkd/0v3k8rv8/2/

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