Q:

Creating a border like this using :before And :after Pseudo-Elements In CSS?

Objective
I want to be able to create a border like this in css, maybe using pseudo elements then a background image.
Code
HTML
<div id="footer"></div>

CSS
#footer {
    background: #4b4b4b;
    color: #868686;
    padding: 0;
    position: relative;
    height: 100px;
    width: 900px;
}

#footer:before {
    content: "";
    display: block;
    width: 220px;
    background-color: #e1e1e1;
    height: 8px;
}

A:

See the following snippet, is this what you want?

body {
    background: silver;
    padding: 0 10px;
}

#content:after {
    height: 10px;
    display: block;
    width: 100px;
    background: #808080;
    border-right: 1px white;
    content: '';
}

#footer:before {
    display: block;
    content: '';
    background: silver;
    height: 10px;
    margin-top: -20px;
    margin-left: 101px;
}

#content {
    background: white;
}

#footer {
    padding-top: 10px;
    background: #404040;
}

p {
    padding: 100px;
    text-align: center;
}

#footer p {
    color: white;
}
<body>
    <div id="content"><p>#content</p></div>
    <div id="footer"><p>#footer</p></div>
</body>

JSFiddle

