border-left-style

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10/10/2017

Sets the style of the left border of the object.

Syntax

{ border-left-style: sStyle }

Possible values

sStyle

String that specifies one of the following values:

none	Default. Border is not drawn, regardless of any border-width.
dashed	Border is a dashed line.
dotted	Border is a dotted line.
double	Border is a double line drawn on top of the background of the object. The sum of the widths of the two single lines and the space between them equals the border-width value. The border width must be at least 3 pixels wide to draw a double border.
groove	3D groove is drawn in colors based on the value.
inset	3D inset is drawn in colors based on the value.
outset	3D outset is drawn in colors based on the value.
ridge	3D ridge is drawn in colors based on the value.
solid	Border is a solid line.

This property has a default value of none. It is not inherited.

Remarks

A border-width greater than zero must be set for the border-left-style property to render.

Examples

The following example uses the border-left-style property to specify the border style. This example uses a call to an embedded style sheet to change the style of the left border to groove:

<head><style>
    td {border-left-style: solid; border-width:0.3cm}
    .change {border-left-style: groove}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table border >
<tr>
  <td onmouseover="this.className='change'" onmouseout="this.className=''">
    <img src="sphere.jpg">
  </td>
</tr>
</table>

Standards information

This property is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 2 (CSS2) Ee371182.xtlink_newWindow(en-us,Expression.40).png .

Applies to

a, abbr, acronym, b, bdo, big, blockquote, body, button, caption, center, cite, code, custom, dd, defaults, del, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, embed, fieldset, font, form, frame, hn, hr, i, iframe, img, input type=button, input type=checkbox, input type=file, input type=image, input type=password, input type=radio, input type=reset, input type=submit, input type=text, ins, li, object, ol, p, q, s, span, sub, table, td, th, tt, u, ul, var, xmp