CSS Quicktip: Borders Inherit Colors
March 9th, 2007Here’s a quick little something you may not have known about CSS borders.
The border shorthand can be used without providing a color value. This is completely valid CSS:
border: 1px solid;
Now that’s not so interesting in itself, right? What makes this interesting is the fact that when you don’t provide a border color value, it inherits the color value of the container, making it the same color as the text it surrounds.
border: 1px solid; color: #c00;
This might save you a little code the next time you’re styling links with borders instead of text-decoration, like when you’re using anything other than the standard underline:
Got any more CSS time savers? Let us know in the comments!
parasight.de
March 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Das hat Dir der Teufel verraten!
The devil told you that!
March 13th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Interesting…