CSS: Borders

• Border examples

Any block element in HTML can be highlighted with frames. This stylistic device allows you to separate monochrome components from each other, or highlight a key element on the page

To create a border for an element, we use the border property, which is shorthand for several properties:

• border-width
• border-style
• border-color

You can specify multiple properties, or you can combine everything within the border property. This is the most common variant and looks like this:

.element {
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

where:

• 1px - border width
• solid - border style
• #ccc - border color

Pixel values and hex color we've already dealt with in this course, but there are eight border styles in CSS:

• dotted
• dashed
• solid
• double
• groove
• ridge
• inset
• outset

and there is also a none value that will "remove" the border, because with border-style: none, browsers ignore the other properties and remove the border

Border examples

<style>
  .border-dotted {
    border: 1px dotted #000;
  }
</style>

<div class="border-dotted">
  Block with a dotted black border
</div>

Instructions

Add <div> to the editor with the class set to border-bold and set a solid border 5 pixels thick. Border color #2196F3. Write styles in the <style> tag

Tips

• Try different border styles in the editor