The border-inline-start
CSS property is a shorthand property for setting the individual logical inline-start border property values in a single place in the style sheet.
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Constituent properties
This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:
Syntax
border-inline-start: 1px; border-inline-start: 2px dotted; border-inline-start: medium dashed green;
The physical border to which border-inline-start
maps depends on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation. It corresponds to the border-top
, border-right
, border-bottom
, or border-left
property depending on the values defined for writing-mode
, direction
, and text-orientation
.
Related properties are border-block-start
, border-block-end
, and border-inline-end
, which define the other borders of the element.
Values
The border-inline-start
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:
|
---|---|
Applies to | all elements |
Inherited | no |
Computed value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
Animation type | as each of the properties of the shorthand: |
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
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-start: 5px dashed blue; }
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 The definition of 'border-inline-start' in that specification. |
Editor's Draft | Initial definition |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
border-inline-start | Chrome Full support 69 | Edge Full support 79 | Firefox
Full support
41
| IE No support No | Opera Full support 56 | Safari Full support 12.1 | WebView Android Full support 69 | Chrome Android Full support 69 | Firefox Android
Full support
41
| Opera Android Full support 48 | Safari iOS Full support 12.2 | Samsung Internet Android Full support 10.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
See also
- This property maps to one of the physical border properties:
border-top
,border-right
,border-bottom
, orborder-left
. writing-mode
,direction
,text-orientation