How to Add Border Around Text using CSS ?

Last Updated : 27 Dec, 2023

This article will show you how to add border around the text using CSS. First, we will create a text element using paragraph, div or using other elements, and then we apply CSS border property on that element to add border around the text.

Syntax:

.gfg {
    border = border_width border_style color_name;
}

<div class="gfg">Text Contents...</div>

Example 1: In this example, we will add a border around the text content using CSS.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>
        How to Add a Border Around 
        Text using CSS?
    </title>
     
    <style>
        body {
            text-align: center;
        }
 
        .text-border {
            border: 1px solid green;
            border-radius: 5px;
            padding: 10px 20px;
            display: inline-block;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <p>
        Welcome to 
        <span class="text-border">GeeksforGeeks</span>
    </p>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

text-border

Example 2: In this example, we will add a border around the text content using CSS.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>
        How to Add a Border Around 
        Text using CSS?
    </title>
     
    <style>
        body {
            text-align: center;
        }
 
        .text-border {
            border: 1px solid green;
            border-radius: 5px;
            padding: 10px 20px;
            display: inline-block;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <p class="text-border">
        Welcome to GeeksforGeeks
    </p>
</body>
 
</html>