border-inline-start

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.

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;

/* Global values */
border-inline-start: inherit;
border-inline-start: initial;
border-inline-start: revert;
border-inline-start: unset;

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: `border-width`: as each of the properties of the shorthand: `border-top-width`: `medium` `border-right-width`: `medium` `border-bottom-width`: `medium` `border-left-width`: `medium` `border-style`: as each of the properties of the shorthand: `border-top-style`: `none` `border-right-style`: `none` `border-bottom-style`: `none` `border-left-style`: `none` `color`: `canvastext`
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	no
Computed value	as each of the properties of the shorthand: `border-width`: as each of the properties of the shorthand: `border-bottom-width`: the absolute length or `0` if `border-bottom-style` is `none` or `hidden` `border-left-width`: the absolute length or `0` if `border-left-style` is `none` or `hidden` `border-right-width`: the absolute length or `0` if `border-right-style` is `none` or `hidden` `border-top-width`: the absolute length or `0` if `border-top-style` is `none` or `hidden` `border-style`: as each of the properties of the shorthand: `border-bottom-style`: as specified `border-left-style`: as specified `border-right-style`: as specified `border-top-style`: as specified `border-inline-start-color`: computed color
Animation type	as each of the properties of the shorthand: `border-inline-start-color`: a color `border-inline-start-style`: discrete `border-inline-start-width`: a length

Formal syntax

<'border-top-width'> || <'border-top-style'> || <color>where 
<color> = <rgb()> | <rgba()> | <hsl()> | <hsla()> | <hwb()> | <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>? )
<hwb()> = hwb( [<hue> | none] [<percentage> | none] [<percentage> | none] [ / [<alpha-value> | none] ]? )
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
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 # border-shorthands

Browser compatibility

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