Name

borderWidth — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read/Write

A shortcut property that lets you set multiple border edges to the same or different width. For Internet Explorer, you may supply one to four space-delimited width length values (Navigator 4’s property is read-only). The number of values determines which sides receive the assigned widths.

Example

document.all.founderQuote.style.borderWidth = "3px 5px"

Value

Three case-insensitive constants—thin | medium | thick—allow the browser to define exactly how many pixels are used to show the border. For more precision, you can also assign a length value (see the discussion of length values at the beginning of this chapter).

In Internet Explorer, this property accepts one, two, three, or four width values, depending on how many and which borders you want to set with specific widths. See the border-width attribute listing in Chapter 10 for complete details on how the number of values affects this property.

Default

medium

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