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CSS Border Left

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Introduction to CSS Border left

In this article, we are focusing on border-left property. There are different shorthand properties for the CSS border such as border-width, border-style, etc. In CSS, border-left is a property to style the left side of the border of an element or page. This property defines the width, line style, color, and thickness of the left border which are known as border-left-width, border-left-style, and border-width-color which are shorthand properties of CSS border-left.

Working of the Border-Left with Syntax and Example

The CSS border-left property allows setting the left part of the border of the element or page.

Syntax:

border-left: border-left-width | border-left-style | border-left-color;

Example:

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This example has the general values in the border-left property of CSS.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
h1 {
border-left: 2px solid red;
}
h2 {
border-left: 5px dotted blue;
}
div {
border-left: double green;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A heading with a border-left with value as solid red left border</h1>
<h2>A heading with a border-left property with value as dotted blue left border</h2>
<div>A div element with a border-left property with value as double left border.</div>
</body>
</html>

Output:

CSS Border Left output 1

In the above program, we can see we are using solid, dotted, and double borders with red, blue, and green colors respectively for each heading and division element and the output is as shown in the screenshot above.

Examples of CSS Border Left

Below are the examples mentioned:

Example #1 – border-left-width

This property is used to set the width of the border at the left side of element or page. This property in turn has different values for width such as fixed value – which is expressed in terms of em, px, etc (border-left-width: 2px); thin – this is when we want to set the value in 1px or 2px (border-left-width: thin) ; medium – this is set when we want the border to be set with value 3px or 4px( border-left-width: medium) ; thick – this property also might have the value 5px or 6px (border-left-width: thick).

Syntax:

Border-left-width: thin | medium | thick;

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
h1 {
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: thin ;
}
h2 {
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: medium;
}
div {
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-width: thick;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A heading with a border-left-width with value as thin left border</h1>
<h2>A heading with a border-left-width with value as medium left border</h1>
<div>A div element with a border-left-width with value as thick left border.</div>
</body>
</html>

Output:

CSS Border Left output 2

In the above program, we can see we are using shorthand property of border-left that is specifying only the width of the border where we have specified with thin, medium and thick width borders for headings and division of element.

Example #2 – border-left-style

This border property is used to add style to the borders at the left part of the element. Let us see few examples with its values such as solid – can be a straight solid line, none – with no border, dotted – has dots in series to form a line as a border, dashed – it contains small dashes in line as a border, double – this has two lines as one border, groove – this gives the curve border, inset – this gives the embedded appearance, outset – with embossed appearance, inherit – will inherit the values from the parent element, hidden – where the borders are hidden, etc.

Syntax:

Border-left-style: dotted | dashed | double | solid;

Example:

Now we will see a few examples of border-left-style.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
h1 {
border-left-style: solid;
}
h2 {
border-left-style: dotted;
}
h3 {
border-left-style: dashed;
}
div {
border-left-style: double;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A heading with a border-left-style with value as solid left border</h1>
<h2>A heading with a border-left-style with value as dotted left border</h1>
<h3>A heading with a border-left-style with value as dashed left border</h1>
<div>This contains border-left-style with value as double left border.</div>
</body>
</html>

Output:

output 3

In the above program, we can see another shorthand property of border-left property which is used for styling the borders, and in the above example we have specified the styles as solid, dotted, dashed, and double values of the border-left-style property.

Example #3 – border- left-color

This property is used to specify the colors to the borders in the left part of the element. In this property, the colors can be specified by either the color names directly or can use hexadecimal values of colors, or can use rgb() or you can also specify as transparent where the border is not seen but space can be seen, or it can have inherited value where it can inherit values from its parent element.

Syntax:

border-left-color: name of the color | hexadecimal value of any color;

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
h1 {
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-color: red;
}
h2 {
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-color: rgb(201, 76, 76);
}
div {
border-style: solid;
border-left-color: #72a8d4;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A heading with a border-left-color with value as red left border</h1>
<h2>A heading with a border-left-color with value as rgb values left border</h2>
<div>The border-left-color with value as hexadecimal value #72a8d4 left border.</div>
</body>
</html>

Output:

output 4

In the above program, we see another shorthand property of border-left property which have a border-left-color property with different types of values where the color is specified the colors in names as red, with RGB values like rgb (201, 76, 76), and with hexadecimal value as #72a8d4.

Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed border-left which is used to set the borders at the left side of the elements or pages which in turn have other shorthand properties with different values specified. Border-left has border-left-width which is used to set the thickness of the borders, border-left-style which is used for styling the borders such as solid, double, dashed, dotted, etc; border-left-color which is used to specify the colors to the borders at the left side of the element.

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