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Revisiting CSS border-image

Yours truly over at CSS Tricks: “I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border-image because its syntax is awkward and unintuitive? Perhaps it’s because most explanations don’t solve the type of creative implementation problems that most people need to solve. Most likely, it’s both.”

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March 23, 2025 • Andy Clarke • CSS Tricks
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