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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Select and Style by Class

Posted by freshkid2066
freshkid2066
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Border Question?

So, u don't have to create multiple properties border, width etc like they did in csstricks.com?Why is the video syntax different from the website

2 Answers

Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
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the property border is shorthand for all of these properties combined. It includes width, color and style, for all 4 borders.

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Rohald van Merode
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Hi Mohamud,

The border property is a shorthand property, in the border property you can set the values for border-width, border-style and border-color.

The link to css-tricks that is at the references page shows the same. The reason that the first example includes width and height is to give the box a size. If the box didn’t have any width or height it wouldn’t be able to display the border.

I hope this answered your question.