Dashed border animation in css3 animation

With pure CSS you can use repeating-linear-gradient to draw the dots on the background, set the transition and on hover move the background.

Sample css code:

.animationBorder {
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin: 12px;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  color: black;
  font-size: 20px;
}
.animationBorder:hover .background {
  background-position: 100px 0;
}
.background, .content {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
}
.background {
  transition: 1200ms;
  background-color: black;
  background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(45deg, transparent, transparent 10px, #ffffff 10px, #ffffff 20px);
  background-size: 30px;
}
.content {
  transition: 200ms;
  margin: 1px;
  line-height: 200px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: white;
}

Demo: 

.animationBorder {
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin: 12px;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  color: black;
  font-size: 20px;
}
.animationBorder:hover .background {
  background-position: 100px 0;
}
.background, .content {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
}
.background {
  transition: 1200ms;
  background-color: black;
  background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(45deg, transparent, transparent 10px, #ffffff 10px, #ffffff 20px);
  background-size: 30px;
}
.content {
  transition: 200ms;
  margin: 1px;
  line-height: 200px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: white;
}
<span class="animationBorder">
  <div class="background"></div>
  <div class="content">My post</div>
</span>

This much is possible with CSS and is pretty simple when using multiple backgrounds and changing their positions using animations.

.border {
  height: 100px;
  width: 200px;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%);
  background-repeat: repeat-x, repeat-x, repeat-y, repeat-y;
  background-size: 16px 4px, 16px 4px, 4px 16px, 4px 16px;
  background-position: 0px 0px, 212px 116px, 0px 116px, 216px 0px;
  padding: 10px;
  transition: background-position 2s;
}
.border:hover{
    background-position: 212px 0px, 0px 116px, 0px 0px, 216px 116px;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prefixfree/1.0.7/prefixfree.min.js"></script>
<div class="border">Some text</div>

Here is a sample with continuous movement of the borders right from the page load.

.border {
  height: 100px;
  width: 200px;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(90deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, blue 50%, transparent 50%);
  background-repeat: repeat-x, repeat-x, repeat-y, repeat-y;
  background-size: 15px 4px, 15px 4px, 4px 15px, 4px 15px;
  background-position: 0px 0px, 200px 100px, 0px 100px, 200px 0px;
  padding: 10px;
  animation: border-dance 4s infinite linear;
}
@keyframes border-dance {
  0% {
    background-position: 0px 0px, 300px 116px, 0px 150px, 216px 0px;
  }
  100% {
    background-position: 300px 0px, 0px 116px, 0px 0px, 216px 150px;
  }
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prefixfree/1.0.7/prefixfree.min.js"></script>
<div class="border">Some text</div>

Credits to web-tiki for helping to fix the slight distortion that was originally present at the end of each loop of the animation.


Here's a way to do it without having to specify the size of the element you want the rotating border on:

.rotating-border {
  width: max-content;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, purple 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(90deg, purple 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, purple 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, purple 50%, transparent 50%);
  background-repeat: repeat-x, repeat-x, repeat-y, repeat-y;
  background-size: 15px 4px, 15px 4px, 4px 15px, 4px 15px;
  padding: 10px;
  animation: border-dance 4s infinite linear;
}

@keyframes border-dance {
  0% {
    background-position: 0 0, 100% 100%, 0 100%, 100% 0;
  }
  100% {
    background-position: 100% 0, 0 100%, 0 0, 100% 100%;
  }
}
<div class="rotating-border">Hello World</div>

based on answer of harry

this can animate all shapes with all sizes

div{
margin:10px;
}
.size1{
background:black;
width:100px;
height:100px;
}

.size2{
background:black;
width:300px;
height:100px;
}


.active-animatioon {
    background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, silver 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(90deg, silver 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, silver 50%, transparent 50%), linear-gradient(0deg, silver 50%, transparent 50%);
    background-repeat: repeat-x, repeat-x, repeat-y, repeat-y;
    background-size: 15px 2px, 15px 2px, 2px 15px, 2px 15px;
    background-position: left top, right bottom, left bottom, right   top;
    animation: border-dance 1s infinite linear;
  }
  @keyframes border-dance {
    0% {
      background-position: left top, right bottom, left bottom, right   top;
    }
    100% {
      background-position: left 15px top, right 15px bottom , left bottom 15px , right   top 15px;
    }
  }
}
<div class="size1 active-animatioon"></div>
<div class="size2 active-animatioon"></div>

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