CSS - border-width


Description

border-width is a shorthand property used to set the width of the four border sides of an element.

Possible Values

  • length − Any length unit. Length units for this property may not be negative.

  • thin − A border which is thinner than a border set to medium.

  • medium − A border which is thicker than a border set to thin, and thinner than a border set to thick.

  • thick − A border which is thicker than a border set to medium.

Applies to

All the HTML elements.

DOM Syntax

object.style.borderWidth = "2px";

Example

Following is the example to show all the border width −

<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   
   <body>
      <p style = "border-width:4px; border-style:solid;">
         This is a solid border whose width is 4px.
      </p>
      
      <p style = "border-width:4pt; border-style:solid;">
         This is a solid border whose width is 4pt.
      </p>
      
      <p style = "border-width:thin; border-style:solid;">
         This is a solid border whose width is thin.
      </p>
      
      <p style = "border-width:medium; border-style:solid;">
         This is a solid border whose width is medium;
      </p>
      
      <p style = "border-width:thick; border-style:solid;">
         This is a solid border whose width is thick.
      </p>
      
      <p style = "border-bottom-width:4px;border-top-width:10px;
         border-left-width: 2px;border-right-width:15px;border-style:solid;">
         This is a a border with four different width.
      </p>
   
   </body>
</html> 

This will produce following result −

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