border-inline-color

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The border-inline-color CSS property defines the color of the logical inline borders of an element, which maps to a physical border color depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation. It corresponds to the border-top-color and border-bottom-color, or border-right-color and border-left-color property depending on the values defined for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation.

Try it

border-inline-color: red;
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;

border-inline-color: #32a1ce;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;

border-inline-color: rgb(170, 50, 220, 0.6);
writing-mode: horizontal-tb;
direction: rtl;

<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="transition-all" id="example-element">
    This is a box with a border around it.
  </div>
</section>

#example-element {
  background-color: #eee;
  color: #000;
  border: 0.75em solid;
  padding: 0.75em;
  width: 80%;
  height: 100px;
  unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
}

The border color in the other dimension can be set with border-block-color which sets border-block-start-color, and border-block-end-color.

Syntax

css

border-inline-color: yellow;
border-inline-color: #f5f6f7;

/* Global values */
border-inline-color: inherit;
border-inline-color: initial;
border-inline-color: revert;
border-inline-color: revert-layer;
border-inline-color: unset;

Values

<color>: The color of the border.

Formal definition

Initial value	`currentcolor`
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	no
Computed value	computed color
Animation type	by computed value type

Formal syntax

border-inline-color = 
  <'border-top-color'>{1,2}  

<border-top-color> = 
  <color>     |
  <image-1D>  

<image-1D> = 
  <stripes()>  

<stripes()> = 
  stripes( <color-stripe># )  

<color-stripe> = 
  <color>                            &&
  [ <length-percentage> | <flex> ]?  

<length-percentage> = 
  <length>      |
  <percentage>

Examples

Border color with vertical text

HTML

html

<div>
  <p class="exampleText">Example text</p>
</div>

CSS

css

div {
  background-color: yellow;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
}

.exampleText {
  writing-mode: vertical-lr;
  border: 10px solid blue;
  border-inline-color: red;
}

Results

Specifications

Specification
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 # propdef-border-inline-color