border-top-style property

Specifies the style of the top border of the object.

CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3, Section 4.2

Syntax

Property values

none: Initial value. Border is not drawn, regardless of any border-width.
hidden: Internet Explorer 8 and later. Same as none, except in terms of conflict resolution of collapsed borders. Any element with a hidden border suppresses all shared borders at that location. Borders with a style of none have the lowest priority.
dotted: Border is a dotted line.
dashed: Border is a dashed line.
solid: Border is a solid line.
double: Border is a double line drawn on top of the background of the object. The sum of the two single lines and the space between equals the border-width value. The border width must be at least 3 pixels wide to draw a double border.
groove: 3-D groove is drawn in colors based on the value.
ridge: 3-D ridge is drawn in colors based on the value.
inset: 3-D inset is drawn in colors based on the value.
outset: 3-D outset is drawn in colors based on the value.
window-inset: Same as inset with a thin outside border.

CSS information

Applies To	All elements
Media	visual
Inherited	no
Initial Value	none

Standards information

CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3, Section 4.2

Remarks

An border-width greater than zero must be set for the border-top-style attribute to render.

Examples

This example uses border-top-style to specify the top border style for a div element.

HTML


<body>
   <div id="right"></div> 
</body>

The CSS below specifies double as the default border style for div elements, then sets border-top-style to solid for the div element above. The following image shows the result, a solid top border.

An element with the border-top-style property specified

CSS


div {
   width: 50px;
   height: 50px;
   border-width: 5px;
   border-style: double;
   border-color: #4169E1;			
}
#top {
   border-top-style: solid;
}