border-inline-start-style

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Summary

The border-inline-start-style CSS property defines the style of the logical inline start border of an element, which maps to a physical border style depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation. It corresponds to the border-top-styleborder-right-styleborder-bottom-style, or border-left-style property depending on the values defined for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation.

It relates to border-block-start-styleborder-block-end-style, and border-inline-end-style, which define the other border styles of the element.

Initial valuenone
Applies toall elements
Inheritedno
Mediavisual
Computed valueas specified
Animatableno
Canonical orderthe unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

Syntax

/* border-inline-start-style: style */
border-inline-start-style: dashed;

/* border-inline-start-style: horizontal vertical */
border-inline-start-style: dotted solid;

/* border-inline-start-style: top horizontal bottom */
border-inline-start-style: hidden double dashed; 

/* border-inline-start-style: top right bottom left */
border-inline-start-style: none solid dotted dashed; 

border-inline-start-style: inherit

Values

<'border-style'>
See border-style

Formal syntax

<'border-style'>

Example

HTML Content

<div>
  <p class="exampleText">Example text</p>
</div>

CSS Content

div {
  background-color: yellow;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
}

.exampleText {
  writing-mode: vertical-lr;
  border: 5px solid blue;
  border-inline-start-style: dashed;
}

Specification

Specification Status Comment
CSS Logical Properties Level 1
The definition of 'border-inline-start-style' in that specification.
Editor's Draft Initial definition

Browser compatibility

Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari (WebKit)
Basic support Not supported 41.0 (41.0)[1][2] Not supported Not supported Not supported
Feature Android Firefox Mobile (Gecko) IE Phone Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support Not supported 41.0 (41.0)[1][2] Not supported Not supported Not supported

[1] Available since Gecko 38, but behind the preference layout.css.vertical-text.enabled, then disabled by default.

[2] Before Gecko 38, and after it, is available in a prefixed version, with a slightly different name, -moz-border-end-color.

See also

Document Tags and Contributors

 Contributors to this page: Sebastianz, teoli, fscholz, jsx, kscarfone
 Last updated by: Sebastianz,