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CSS border-style Property

Last Updated : 11 Jul, 2025

CSS border-style Property is used to set the border style, and it is a shorthand property that sets the line style for all four sides of an element's border.

**Note: The border-style property can take **One to **Four values at a time.

**Default Value: none

**CSS border-style Property Syntax:

border-style: value;

**CSS border-style Property Values:

• **none: No border is created and it is left plain.
• **hidden: Just like _none, it doesn't show any border unless a background image is added, then the border-top-width will be set to 0 irrespective of the user-defined value.
• **dotted: A series of dots are displayed in a line as the border.
• **solid: A single solid and bold line is used as a border.
• **dashed: A series of square dashed lines are used as a border.
• **double: Two lines placed parallel to each other act as the border.
• **groove: Displays a 3D grooved border, its effect depends on border-color value.
• **ridge: Displays a 3D ridged border, its effect depends on border-color value.
• **inset: displays a 3D inset border, its effect depends on border-color value.
• **outset: Displays a 3D outset border, its effect depends on border-color value.

CSS **border-style property is a shorthand for:

• **CSS border-bottom-style Property: It's used to set the style of the bottom border of an element.
• **CSS border-top-style Property: It is used to specify the style of the top border.
• **CSS border-left-style Property: It is used to set the style of the left border of an element.
• **CSS border-right-style Property:It is used to change the appearance of the right line segment of the border of an element.
• **CSS border-block-style Property: It is used to set the individual logical block border-style property values in a single place in the style sheet.
• **CSS border-inline-style Property:It is an inbuilt property in CSS that is used to set the individual logical block inline-border-style property values in a single place in the style sheet.

The below examples illustrate the use of the border-style property.

**CSS border-style property Example :

In This example we are using is using CSS border-style property which contain only one value for all borders.

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**Output:

**CSS border-style property Example Explanation:

Here is the explanantion of above exmaple.

• Here we have html file with dotted border styling and green background, containing a centered heading.
• CSS defines dotted borders, green background, and centered text within a fixed-sized container.

**CSS border-style property example with multiple values:

In this example The CSS border-style property accepts multiple values to define different styles for each side of the border.

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**Output:

**CSS border-style property with multiple values Example Explanation:

Here is the implemantation of above example.

• Here we have a div with 4 different brder style.
• we target our div border by using id selctor.
• here we are using border-style with multiple values like border-style: solid double dashed dotted; in which solid is top double is right and dashed is bottom and dotted is right side of our given div.

CSS border-style Property Use Cases:

1. How to create and style border using CSS ?

we can use border properties like style, width, and color to create and style borders in CSS.

2. How to create a Border around an HTML Element using CSS ?

Here we can use CSS properties like border-style, border-width, and border-color to create a border around HTML elements.

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The browser supported by _border-style Property are listed below:

• Chrome 1.0
• Edge 12.0
• IE 4.0
• Firefox 1.0
• Safari 1.0
• Opera 3.5