Our personal favorite CSS attribute, allows you to completely customize the borders that appear around HTML elements. With HTML, it used to be impossible to place a border around an element, except for the table. CSS Borders lets you create crisp and customized border styles with very little work, compared to the antiquated methods of HTML.
The `border` shorthand property sets all the border properties in one declaration.
```css
border: 1px solid #000;
```
The properties that can be set, are (in order):
1.`border-style`
2.`border-width`
3.`border-color`
4.`border-radius`
It does not matter if one of the values above are missing, for example:
```css
border: solid red;
```
The above code is also valid CSS.
### Border Styles
The `border-style` property sets a wide range of different types of borders.
The various values are:
-`dotted` - Sets a dotted border.
-`dashed` - Sets a dashed border.
-`solid` - Sets a solid border.
-`double` - Sets a double border.
-`groove` - Sets a 3D grooved border.
-`ridge` - Sets a 3D ridged border.
-`inset` - Sets a 3D inset border.
-`outset` - Sets a 3D outset border.
-`none` - Sets no border.
-`hidden` - Sets a hidden border.
Based on the property you choose, these styles can be mismatched.
You can style each side seperately:
```css
border-top-style: solid;
border-left-style: dotted;
border-right-style: dashed;
border-bottom-style: double;
```
Or you can style them all at once:
```css
border-style: solid dashed double dotted;
```
As shown, the border property allows you to select different sections of it. [top, bottom, left, right]
### Border Width
To alter the thickness of your border use the border-width attribute. You may use key terms or exact values to define the border width. Note: You must
define a border-style for the border to show up. The width can be set as a specific size (in px, pt, cm, em, etc) or by using one of the three pre-defined
values: thin, medium, or thick.
Example:
```css
<styletype="text/css">
table {
border-width: 7px;
border-style: outset;
}
td {
border-width: medium;
border-style: outset;
}
p {
border-width: thick;
border-style: solid;
}
</style>
```
### Border Color
Now for the creative aspect of CSS Borders! With the use of the border-color attribute, you will be able to create customized borders to fit the flow and layout
of your website. Border colors can be any color defined by RGB, hexadecimal, or key terms. Below is an example of each of these types.
Example:
```css
<styletype="text/css">
table {
border-color: rgb( 100, 100, 255);
border-style: dashed;
}
td {
border-color: #FFBD32;
border-style: ridge;
}
p {
border-color: blue;
border-style: solid;
}
</style>
```
### Border-Radius
The `border-radius` property allows the corners of a border to be rounded. This is done by providing a size for
how much the border is to be rounded. Size can be in px or %.
```css
border-radius: 25px;
```
Each corner of `border-radius` can be adjusted. The order is top, bottom, left, right.
```css
border-radius: 15% 10px 30% 5px;
```
### Border: All in One
While it is nice that CSS allows a web developer to be very specific in creating a customized border, sometimes it is just easier and less of a headache to create a uniform border, all in single line of CSS code.
