The border-inline CSS property is a shorthand property for setting the individual logical inline border property values in a single place in the style sheet.

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: unset; 

border-inline

The border-inline CSS property is a shorthand property for setting the individual logical inline border property values in a single place in the style sheet.

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.

Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

border-inline-color border-inline-style border-inline-width

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: 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.

<'color'>

The color of the border. See color.

Formal definition

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

Formal syntax

<'border-top-width'> || <'border-top-style'> || <color>
where <color> = <rgb()> | <rgba()> | <hsl()> | <hsla()> | <hwb()> | <hex-color> | <named-color> | currentcolor | <deprecated-system-color>
where <rgb()> = rgb( <percentage>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgb( <number>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgb( <percentage>#{3} , <alpha-value>? ) | rgb( <number>#{3} , <alpha-value>? )<rgba()> = rgba( <percentage>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgba( <number>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgba( <percentage>#{3} , <alpha-value>? ) | rgba( <number>#{3} , <alpha-value>? )<hsl()> = hsl( <hue> <percentage> <percentage> [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | hsl( <hue>, <percentage>, <percentage>, <alpha-value>? )<hsla()> = hsla( <hue> <percentage> <percentage> [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | hsla( <hue>, <percentage>, <percentage>, <alpha-value>? )<hwb()> = hwb( [<hue> | none] [<percentage> | none] [<percentage> | none] [ / [<alpha-value> | none] ]? )
where <alpha-value> = <number> | <percentage><hue> = <number> | <angle>

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

See also

This property maps to one of the physical border properties: border-top, border-right, border-bottom, or border-left. writing-mode, direction, text-orientation

Last modified: Aug 12, 2021, by MDN contributors

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