border-inline - CSS | MDN (original) (raw)

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border-inline: solid;
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;

border-inline: dashed red;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;

border-inline: 1rem solid;
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;
direction: rtl;

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element">
    This is a box with a border around it.
  </div>
</section>

#example-element {
  background-color: #eeeeee;
  color: darkmagenta;
  padding: 0.75em;
  width: 80%;
  height: 100px;
  unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
}

Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

Syntax

border-inline: 1px;
border-inline: 2px dotted;
border-inline: medium dashed blue;

/* Global values */
border-inline: inherit;
border-inline: initial;
border-inline: revert;
border-inline: revert-layer;
border-inline: unset;

Values

The border-inline is specified with one or more of the following, in any order:

<'border-width'>

The width of the border. See border-width.

<'border-style'>

The line style of the border. See border-style.

The color of the border.

Description

The physical borders to which border-inline maps depends on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation. It corresponds to the border-top and border-bottom or border-right, and border-left properties, depending on the values defined for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation.

The borders in the other dimension can be set with border-block, which sets border-block-start, and border-block-end.

Formal definition

Initial value as each of the properties of the shorthand:border-inline-width: mediumborder-inline-style: noneborder-inline-color: currentcolor
Applies to all elements
Inherited no
Computed value as each of the properties of the shorthand:border-inline-width: absolute length; 0 if the border style is none or hiddenborder-inline-style: as specifiedborder-inline-color: computed color
Animation type as each of the properties of the shorthand:border-inline-color: by computed value typeborder-inline-style: discreteborder-inline-width: by computed value type

Formal syntax

border-inline =
<'border-block-start'>

=
||
||

=
<length [0,∞]> |
thin |
medium |
thick

=
none |
hidden |
dotted |
dashed |
solid |
double |
groove |
ridge |
inset |
outset

Examples

Border with vertical text

HTML

<div>
  <p class="exampleText">Example text</p>
</div>

CSS

div {
  background-color: yellow;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
}

.exampleText {
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;
  border-inline: 5px dashed blue;
}

Results

Specifications

Specification
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 # propdef-border-inline

Browser compatibility

See also