Comments on: CSS’s Border Attribute – Usage and Best Practices

By: Olivia Gresham

Olivia Gresham — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:02:07 +0000

I think I’ll try it out, I simply ruled them out because its hard to make them look good. Thanks for the read!

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:59:39 +0000

Thanks for the pointers. I’m at the stage in building my website that I really need to offset parts of the text in my longer articles and nice, subtle borders are going to do it for me!

Otherwise, my visitors (not all accountants) would get bored very quickly…

We all need help getting to the “bottom line” of the page or an article and borders can emphasize important parts of the text in a very elegant way.

By: Andy Walpole

Andy Walpole — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:41:55 +0000

Things are getting pretty funky with CSS borders in CSS3. Try out the borders-image property when you get a chance but it’s real difficult to get your head around the syntax. Also Firefox’s -moz-border-bottom-colors is worth playing around with.
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By: mikeo

mikeo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:22:15 +0000

nice article.

i have no problem using borders – just as needed not because they are there.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:35:47 +0000

Good tutorial. For a long time borders had a bad reputation and some people still hesitate to use them, but used correctly they can really improve the neatness of a design.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:16:42 +0000

Thanks guys, I was just curious.
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By: Shane Jeffers

Shane Jeffers — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:50:26 +0000

@daniel

JV is correct. I am not condoning using borders over padding and margin, just the use of borders in general to enhance the layout!

By: JV

JV — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:35:42 +0000

@Danial, using css to design a site is combining borders with padding/margin. You can see in the examples that he uses a lot of padding.
I guess that since this tutorial is about border Shane is not mentioning the use of padding/margin to keep the focus on the border possibilities.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:01:49 +0000

So, are you saying that designing a site with borders is somewhat better than using margins and padding?

By: Nathalie Firefly

Nathalie Firefly — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:13:44 +0000

Great tutorial! Here’s some simple border use on a website I designed…