Using CSS Feature: border-inline-color

css border inline color usage
10 November 2024

Hello dear friends! Today we're going to talk about one of the fascinating CSS features that is increasingly being used: the border-inline-color feature. This feature allows you to set the color of the inline borders of an element. For those who might not be familiar with this feature, I should mention that border-inline-color serves to customize the border colors on the right and left sides when your layout is given in languages that flow from right to left or from left to right, which is very useful.

Until now, to change the colors of horizontal borders, we needed to use border-left-color and border-right-color separately, which sometimes made the job a bit more complicated. However, now with border-inline-color, you can easily manage both sides simultaneously. Isn't it amazing?

Imagine you have a colored box on your site that requires the border colors to change based on a part of the page itself to match the overall color scheme. Here, using border-inline-color can easily accomplish this task in a visually pleasing manner.

Let's start with a simple example. Suppose we have a div element that we want to define a specific color for. For this purpose, consider the code below:

<style>
  .my-div {
    border: 2px solid;
    border-inline-color: red;
  }
</style>

<div class="my-div">
  The inner content is a sample text.
</div>

In this code, we first defined a class named my-div. Additionally, we set the border to 2px solid to specify the thickness and style of the border. Finally, using border-inline-color we set the border color on the right and left sides to red, so you can see how it works.

It can be easily seen how this feature can enhance visual aesthetics and perhaps help you save time in managing CSS elements at a higher level.

Code Explanation:

.my-div:
Defines a class named my-div for the div element.
border: 2px solid;:
Specifies the thickness and style of the border for the div.
border-inline-color: red;:
Sets the color of the borders on the right and left sides to red.
<div class="my-div">:
Instantiates the class my-div on the div element.

FAQ

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How can I set the border colors of the right and left individually?

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Why do some old browsers not support border-inline-color?