# Display an Outline (Not a Border!) on Hover | kirupa.com

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 23, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/display-an-outline-not-a-border-on-hover-kirupa-com/352440 "2014-11-23T07:27:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/display-an-outline-not-a-border-on-hover-kirupa-com/352440/1 "2014-11-23T07:27:53Z")

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by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 6 October 2012

Giving feedback when users are hovering over something that is clickable or interactable (is that even a word?) is generally considered good design. For text, you have many ways of indicating a hover - ways such as underlines, color changes, etc. For blocky, box-like things like images or divs, one of the most common things you can do is show an outline or a border around the element when you hover.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5/display\_an\_outline\_instead\_of\_a\_border\_hover.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/display_an_outline_instead_of_a_border_hover.htm)