Double borders in CSS - html

Question

I'm creating PHP, Javascript based photo-gallery from scratch
The problem is, I want to make difference between simple picture and photo-album.
So simple picture borders look like that
Is that possible to create facebook like photo-album borders (double borders, which creates multiple images effect) via css or CSS3?
P.S Don't know if it will be possible with old css standarts. I mean, CSS3 probably can do it but it will not be backward compatible. In other hand, currently my php side generates 100x100 px thumbs. I need something that will not be ruined if I will increase size of thumbs.
Thx in advance

Answer 1

Use a pseudo element like :before or :after, for example:
Turns out, most browsers don't like :before on images because it's not a text-containing element. You could still do this if you did it on an alternative element, like a div, and set the div's background to the original image. Or, you could try:
http://jsbin.com/otivaj/edit#html,live

Answer 2

Is this what you're looking for?
jsfiddle
HTML:
<div class="facebook-album"></div>
CSS:
.facebook-album, .facebook-album:before
{
background: red;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin: 20px;
border: 3px solid #FFF;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #999;
position: relative;
}
.facebook-album:before
{
margin: 0;
content: "";
position: absolute;
top: -7px;
left: -7px;
background: white;
z-index: -1;
}

Answer 3

You could just look at Facebook's source to figure it out. This will also work:
http://jsfiddle.net/g9A6a/

Answer 4

Yep, you can definitely do this with CSS. It looks like all your images are the same size, too, which will make this very straightforward. Simply place your <img> inside a containing element with position: relative; and an offset. Both the container and image should have a border, with padding and offsets you so desire. Set the width and height of the containing element based off the child image's dimensions.
Here is a
DEMO on jsfiddle

Answer 5

I'm not sure you can achieve that effect with simply CSS2. If adding more markup is an option, I would do something like this:
<ul>
<li><img></li>
</ul>
li {
position: relative;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
img {
padding: 6px;
border: 1px solid gray;
position:absolute;
top:6px;
left: 6px;
background-color:white;
}