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- Constituent properties
- Syntax
- Values
- Description
- Borders vs. outlines
- Formal definition
- Formal syntax
- Examples
- Setting a pink outset border
- HTML
- CSS
- Result
- Specifications
- Browser compatibility
- See also
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- CSS Borders
- CSS Border Style
- Example
- Все о свойстве border
- Основы
- Border-Radius
- Несколько границ
- Изменение углов
- CSS фигуры
- Создание Speech Bubble
- Итог
- How to add a border around all elements in the body of a webpage?
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border
The border shorthand CSS property sets an element’s border. It sets the values of border-width , border-style , and border-color .
Try it
Constituent properties
This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:
Syntax
/* style */ border: solid; /* width | style */ border: 2px dotted; /* style | color */ border: outset #f33; /* width | style | color */ border: medium dashed green; /* Global values */ border: inherit; border: initial; border: revert; border: revert-layer; border: unset;
The border property may be specified using one, two, or three of the values listed below. The order of the values does not matter.
Note: The border will be invisible if its style is not defined. This is because the style defaults to none .
Values
Sets the thickness of the border. Defaults to medium if absent. See border-width .
Sets the style of the border. Defaults to none if absent. See border-style .
Sets the color of the border. Defaults to currentcolor if absent. See border-color .
Description
As with all shorthand properties, any omitted sub-values will be set to their initial value. Importantly, border cannot be used to specify a custom value for border-image , but instead sets it to its initial value, i.e., none .
The border shorthand is especially useful when you want all four borders to be the same. To make them different from each other, however, you can use the longhand border-width , border-style , and border-color properties, which accept different values for each side. Alternatively, you can target one border at a time with the physical (e.g., border-top ) and logical (e.g., border-block-start ) border properties.
Borders vs. outlines
Borders and outlines are very similar. However, outlines differ from borders in the following ways:
- Outlines never take up space, as they are drawn outside of an element’s content.
- According to the spec, outlines don’t have to be rectangular, although they usually are.
Formal definition
- border-width : as each of the properties of the shorthand:
- border-top-width : medium
- border-right-width : medium
- border-bottom-width : medium
- border-left-width : medium
- border-top-style : none
- border-right-style : none
- border-bottom-style : none
- border-left-style : none
- border-top-color : currentcolor
- border-right-color : currentcolor
- border-bottom-color : currentcolor
- border-left-color : currentcolor
- border-width : as each of the properties of the shorthand:
- border-bottom-width : the absolute length or 0 if border-bottom-style is none or hidden
- border-left-width : the absolute length or 0 if border-left-style is none or hidden
- border-right-width : the absolute length or 0 if border-right-style is none or hidden
- border-top-width : the absolute length or 0 if border-top-style is none or hidden
- border-bottom-style : as specified
- border-left-style : as specified
- border-right-style : as specified
- border-top-style : as specified
- border-bottom-color : computed color
- border-left-color : computed color
- border-right-color : computed color
- border-top-color : computed color
- border-color : as each of the properties of the shorthand:
- border-bottom-color : a color
- border-left-color : a color
- border-right-color : a color
- border-top-color : a color
- border-bottom-width : a length
- border-left-width : a length
- border-right-width : a length
- border-top-width : a length
Formal syntax
border =
||
||=
|
thin |
medium |
thick=
none |
hidden |
dotted |
dashed |
solid |
double |
groove |
ridge |
inset |
outsetExamples
Setting a pink outset border
HTML
div>I have a border, an outline, and a box shadow! Amazing, isn't it?div>
CSS
div border: 0.5rem outset pink; outline: 0.5rem solid khaki; box-shadow: 0 0 0 2rem skyblue; border-radius: 12px; font: bold 1rem sans-serif; margin: 2rem; padding: 1rem; outline-offset: 0.5rem; >
Result
Specifications
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The CSS border properties allow you to specify the style, width, and color of an element’s border.
I have borders on all sides.
I have a red bottom border.
I have a blue left border.
CSS Border Style
The border-style property specifies what kind of border to display.
The following values are allowed:
- dotted — Defines a dotted border
- dashed — Defines a dashed border
- solid — Defines a solid border
- double — Defines a double border
- groove — Defines a 3D grooved border. The effect depends on the border-color value
- ridge — Defines a 3D ridged border. The effect depends on the border-color value
- inset — Defines a 3D inset border. The effect depends on the border-color value
- outset — Defines a 3D outset border. The effect depends on the border-color value
- none — Defines no border
- hidden — Defines a hidden border
The border-style property can have from one to four values (for the top border, right border, bottom border, and the left border).
Example
Demonstration of the different border styles:
A groove border. The effect depends on the border-color value.
A ridge border. The effect depends on the border-color value.
An inset border. The effect depends on the border-color value.
An outset border. The effect depends on the border-color value.
Note: None of the OTHER CSS border properties (which you will learn more about in the next chapters) will have ANY effect unless the border-style property is set!
Все о свойстве border
Все знакомы с css параметром border, но есть ли вещи, которые мы не знаем о нем?
Основы
border-width: thick; border-style: solid; border-color: black;
Например у параметра border-width есть три параметра: thin, medium, thick:
Если необходимо менять цвет границы при наведении на объект:
Border-Radius
border-radius — это новый параметр CSS3 для отображения закругленных углов, который корректно работает во всех современных браузерах, за исключением Internet Explorer 8 (и более старых версий).
Для каждого угла можно назначить свое закругление:
border-top-left-radius: 20px; border-top-right-radius: 0; border-bottom-right-radius: 30px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0;
В приведенном примере необязательно назначать «0» border-top-right-radius и border-bottom-left-radius, если они не наследуют значения, которые должны быть изменены.
Всю конструкцию можно сжать в одну строку:/* top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left */ border-radius: 20px 0 30px 0;
Здесь описаны самые простые и популярные примеры применения параметра border. Перейдем к более сложным.
Несколько границ
Border-Style
solid, dashed, and dotted — самые популярные значения параметра border-style, но давайте рассмотрим другие, например, groove and ridge.
border: 20px groove #e3e3e3;
border-color: #e3e3e3; border-width: 20px; border-style: groove;
Outline
Этот способ отлично работает, но ограничен созданием двойной рамки. Если вам необходимо отобразить несколько границ элемента, то необходимо использовать другую технику.
Псевдоэлементы
.box < width: 200px; height: 200px; background: #e3e3e3; position: relative; border: 10px solid green; >/* Create two boxes with the same width of the container */ .box:after, .box:before < content: ''; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; >.box:after < border: 5px solid red; outline: 5px solid yellow; >.box:before
Возможно это не самое элегантное решение, однако оно работает
Box-Shadow
Изменение углов
border-radius: 50px / 100px; /* horizontal radius, vertical radius */
border-top-left-radius: 50px 100px; border-top-right-radius: 50px 100px; border-bottom-right-radius: 50px 100px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50px 100px;
Эта техничка бывает полезна, если необходимо имитировать искривление, а не закругление. Например, так можно получить эффект скрученной бумаги:
CSS фигуры
Наиболее частым примером использования CSS фигур является отображение стрелок. Чтобы понять, как это работает, необходимо разобраться с использованием отдельного border-color для каждой стороны и установкой значения «0» для width и height:
А теперь оставляем только синий треугольник:
Создание Speech Bubble
Теперь нужно расположить стрелку-треугольник в нужном месте. Вот наш цветной квадратик:
Оставляем только четверть квадратика:
Теперь перемещаем ниже и закрашиваем:
.speech-bubble < /* … other styles */ border-radius: 10px; >.speech-bubble:after < content: ''; position: absolute; width: 0; height: 0; border: 15px solid; border-top-color: #292929; top: 100%; left: 50%; margin-left: -15px; /* adjust for border width */ >
Примеры применения:
/* Speech Bubbles Usage: Apply a class of .speech-bubble and .speech-bubble-DIRECTION
Hi there*/ .speech-bubble < position: relative; background-color: #292929; width: 200px; height: 150px; line-height: 150px; /* vertically center */ color: white; text-align: center; border-radius: 10px; font-family: sans-serif; >.speech-bubble:after < content: ''; position: absolute; width: 0; height: 0; border: 15px solid; >/* Position the Arrow */ .speech-bubble-top:after < border-bottom-color: #292929; left: 50%; bottom: 100%; margin-left: -15px; >.speech-bubble-right:after < border-left-color: #292929; left: 100%; top: 50%; margin-top: -15px; >.speech-bubble-bottom:after < border-top-color: #292929; top: 100%; left: 50%; margin-left: -15px; >.speech-bubble-left:afterВертикальное центрирование текста
минус использования line-height при вертикальном центрировании в ограничении текста одной строкой. Для решения этой проблемы, можно применить display: table к нашему Speech Bubble и display: table-cell к тексту:
.speech-bubble < /* other styles */ display: table; >.speech-bubble p
Еще один пример нестандартного использования границ:
Итог
Использование параметра border не ограничивается одним лишь «1px solid black», с помощью границ можно создавать различные фигуры, причем достаточно один раз написать CSS-класс и применять его к множеству элементов на странице.
How to add a border around all elements in the body of a webpage?
There is some weird white space showing up on the right side of my website in mobile. I was wondering if there is a CSS trick to add a border to all the html elements within the body of a webpage so that I can figure out which element is extending out and causing the white space on mobile. Thank you
You can also inspect element to find the offending element. Post a link and one of us will check it out for you.
agree with Vector. As the answers below state you can use * <> to select everything on your page but I believe that will significantly affect your page load time. You should find the cause of this and fix it.
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You can try this CSS snippet:
Every element should now get a border. Beware, this means everything. Hopefuly it’ll help you figure out that white space in your app!
Include that CSS snippet before your CSS files so that it can be overwritten — or after, to force it onto every element.
every element will get a bloody border and that borders will be accounted to the elements widths. box-sizing: border-box; would help to temporarily prevent a total mess.
* is a global selector, while outline will not mess with your elements positions, it’ll just add a 1px red outline
Also make sure you use a CSS reset (usually body has by default 8px margin http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/sample.html)
You can resize your window, open the debug console and inspect the elements that might create the issue. Take a look at the Style panel and test-edit the styles until you get it fixed. in Chrome’s Console you also have the Emulate option to test your page for different devices.
This does not answer the question. Outline is not border. Outline might be better than border, but that would be something to be said in a comment or in a P.S.