CSS Tip – Different Color Borders

Apr 25, 2008 | css | fyd

A quick CSS tip. Don't want your css border to have the same color for every side. Well, you can make each side have a different color – it's easy.

.exampleBox
{
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 3px solid #000000;
border-color: #ff00ff #00ff00 #0000ff #00ffff;
}

Some text in the box

Let's take a closer look at the css border properties. We start off by creating a border: that has a 3px 'stroke' that is solid and the color black. The next property we use is border-color:. The format here is TOP, RIGHT, BOTTOM, LEFT – or clockwise around the square starting from the top. Even though we set a color in the border: property, we put border-color below it which gives it precedence – or it 'overwrites' the border's color.

Need the HTML – I used an embedded stylesheet here, but this will work the same in an external stylesheet.

<html>
<head>
<title>CSS Different Colored Border</title>

<style type="text/css">
.exampleBox
{
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 3px solid #000;
border-color: #ff00ff #00ff00 #0000ff #00ffff;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<div class="box">
<p>
Some text in the the box
</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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