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

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

Browser compatibility

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