Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

border-bottom, border-left, border-right, border-top — NN n/a IE 4 CSS 1

Synopsis

Inherited: No

All four attributes are shorthand attributes for setting the width, style, and/or color of a single border edge of an element in one assignment statement. Whichever attributes you don’t explicitly set with this attribute assume their initial values.

CSS Syntax

border-bottom: border-bottom-width || border-bottom-style || color
border-left: border-left-width || border-left-style || color
border-right: border-right-width || border-right-style || color
border-top: border-top-width || border-top-style || color

Value

For the width and style attribute values, see the border-bottom-width and border-bottom-style attributes in this chapter. For details on the color value, see the section about colors at the beginning of this chapter.

Initial Value

None.

Example

P {border-bottom: solid lightgreen 3px}
P {border-left: solid lightgreen 6px}
P {border-right: solid lightgreen 3px}
P {border-top: solid lightgreen 6px}

Applies To

All elements (CSS); block and replaced elements (IE).

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.all.elementID.style.borderBottom

[window.]document.all.elementID.style.borderLeft

[window.]document.all.elementID.style.borderRight

[window.]document.all.elementID.style.borderTop