border-block-width

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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2021.

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

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

Syntax

css
/* <'border-width'> values */
border-block-width: 5px;
border-block-width: thick;

/* Global values */
border-block-width: inherit;
border-block-width: initial;
border-block-width: revert;
border-block-width: revert-layer;
border-block-width: unset;

Values

<'border-width'>

The width of the border. See border-width.

Formal definition

Initial valuemedium
Applies toall elements
Inheritedno
Percentageslogical-width of containing block
Computed valueabsolute length; 0 if the border style is none or hidden
Animation typeby computed value type

Formal syntax

border-block-width = 
  <'border-top-width'>{1,2}  

<border-top-width> = 
  <line-width>  

<line-width> = 
  <length [0,∞]>  |
  thin            |
  medium          |
  thick

Examples

Border width 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: 1px solid blue;
  border-block-width: 5px;
}

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Specifications

Specification
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1
# propdef-border-block-width

Browser compatibility

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See also