Border

Border is used to define the boundary around an element, providing visual separation and emphasis within a page.

You can customize a border’s thickness, color, and style to enhance the overall design and highlight specific content. Border can be applied to all edges uniformly or to specific sides of an element.

Thickness

Thickness refers to the width of the border around an element. Specifying border thickness helps create elements with varying visual emphasis, from subtle accents to bold outlines.

Color

You can select from your site colors to use as a border color. Customizing border color adds visual interest, creates contrast, and reinforces branding.

Style

Choose from styles like dotted, dashed, or solid lines to suit different design preferences. Dotted lines create a pattern of small dots; dashed lines consist of short dashes separated by spaces; and solid lines provide a continuous, unbroken border.

Examples

Apply borders to boxes to make them pop out as cards.

You can apply borders to specific sides to create dividers between elements.

Pro tips

Borders complement shadows, giving your boxes a crisper edge and emphasizing the depth of the shadow. Lower the border color opacity to create a more subtle effect.

Shortcuts

While dragging the border panel inputs, hold the ⌥ Option or Alt key to equally change border width on both sides of an element. Hold ⇧ Shift + ⌥ Option or Alt to equally change border width for all sides.

Developer notes

You can give your team control over the border property for any custom component using the Style control.