Web/CSS/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.

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

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.

Initial value	as each of the properties of the shorthand: `border-top-width`: `medium` `border-top-style`: `none` `border-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 `hidden` `border-top-style`: as specified `border-top-color`: computed color
Animation type	discrete

Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

Syntax

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`: `medium` `border-top-style`: `none` `border-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 `hidden` `border-top-style`: as specified `border-top-color`: computed color
Animation type	discrete

Formal syntax

<'border-top-width'> || <'border-top-style'> || <'color'>where <color> = <rgb()> | <rgba()> | <hsl()> | <hsla()> | <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>? )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	Status	Comment
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1The definition of 'border-inline' in that specification.	Editor's Draft	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

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	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet
`border-inline`	Chrome Full support 69	Edge Full support 79	Firefox Full support 66	IE No support No	Opera Full support 56	Safari No support No	WebView Android Full support 69	Chrome Android Full support 69	Firefox Android Full support 66	Opera Android Full support 48	Safari iOS No support No	Samsung Internet Android Full support 10.0

Legend

Full support: Full support
No support: No support