Neon Border
Synthwave cyan glowing outline that pulses gently — built for dark dashboards, gaming UIs, and developer tools.
Neon Border the 4th of 19 designs in the 19 CSS Blockquote Designs collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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<figure class="cbq-neon">
<blockquote>
<p>Optimize for joy. The metrics will follow.</p>
</blockquote>
<figcaption>— k. tanaka, eng lead</figcaption>
</figure> .cbq-neon {
max-width: 320px;
padding: 22px;
background: #0a0a18;
border: 1.5px solid #00e5ff;
border-radius: 10px;
box-shadow:
0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 229, 255, 0.2),
0 0 18px rgba(0, 229, 255, 0.35);
color: #d8f7ff;
font-family: ui-monospace, monospace;
animation: cbq-neon-pulse 3.2s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.cbq-neon blockquote {
margin: 0;
}
.cbq-neon p {
margin: 0;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.55;
}
.cbq-neon figcaption {
margin-top: 12px;
font-size: 11px;
color: #00e5ff;
letter-spacing: 0.06em;
}
@keyframes cbq-neon-pulse {
0%,
100% {
box-shadow:
0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 229, 255, 0.2),
0 0 18px rgba(0, 229, 255, 0.35);
}
50% {
box-shadow:
0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 229, 255, 0.32),
0 0 26px rgba(0, 229, 255, 0.55);
}
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.cbq-neon {
animation: none !important;
}
}