CSS Reference Property

border-bottom-width 2c132d

The border-bottom-width property is used to set the width of the bottom border of an element. 5i2n3y

The width of the border can be explicitly set using a <length> value, or by using one of three border width keywords: thin, medium, and thick.

Official Syntax 3xs5l

  • Syntax:

    border-bottom-width: <length> | thin | medium | thick
  • Initial: medium
  • Applies To: all elements
  • Animatable: yes

Notes 441w3q

Note that the initial width is medium, but the initial border style of an element is none and therefore the used width is 0.

Values u704t

<length>
The width of the border is set to the specified length. Negative values are not allowed.
thin
Implementation-specfic. See note below and the live demo for examples.
medium
Implementation-specfic. See note below and the live demo for examples.
thick
Implementation-specfic. See note below and the live demo for examples.

Notes 441w3q

The specification doesn’t precisely define the thickness of each of the keywords, which is therefore implementation specific, but the values are constant throughout a document and thin ? medium ? thick. A browser could, for example, make the thickness depend on the medium font size: one choice might be 1px (for thin), 3px (for medium) & 5px (for thick) when the medium font size is 17px or less.

The border-bottom-width property can also inherit the value of the element’s parent’s bottom border width using the keyword inherit.

Examples 2h2053

The following are all valid border-bottom-width values set on an element. The element’s border style and border color are also set using the border-bottom-color respectively.

.element {
    border-bottom-style: dotted;
    border-bottom-color: red;
    border-bottom-width: 10px;
    /* or */
    border-bottom-width: thin;
    /* or */
    border-bottom-width: 1em;
}
                

Live Demo 6b4m17

Have a look at the live demo:

View this demo on the Codrops Playground

Browser 572e63

The property works in all major browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE, and on Android and iOS.

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Last updated June 4, 2020 at 2:29 pm by Mary Lou

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