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Double box/border? Is this possible in CSS?

I'm trying to recreate this image in CSS.enter image description here

This is what I got from experimenting, so far. I used box-shadow to act as the second box. I'm not sure if there's a better way to do this?

h4 {
  font-family: sans-serif;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  border: solid 3px black;
  border-radius: 5px;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-weight: 600;
  color: black;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  padding: 20px 15px;
  background: white;
  box-shadow: 10px 5px 0px 0px #ffffff, 11px 7px 0px 2px #000000;
}
<h4>3. Scouting for a location</h4>

enter image description here

Solution

  • You can achieve this via absolutely position pseudo element. Also avoid property duplication via CSS inheritance.

    .border {
  text-align: center;
  border: solid 3px black;
  border-radius: 5px;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-weight: 600;
  color: black;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  padding: 20px 15px;
  margin: 15px 15px;
  background: white;
  
  position: relative; /* new */
}

/* new */
.border:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  display: block;
  background: inherit;
  border-radius: inherit;
  border: inherit;
  left: 2px;
  top: 2px;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  z-index: -1;
}
    <div class="border">3. Scouting for a location</div>