Sometimes, a website design benefits when images have frames – or borders. One way to get them is one image at a time, using a graphics program. But there is a much faster way – with CSS!
This code:
<img src="image.jpg" width="350px" height="262px" alt="Rusty Stove in Luckenbach, Texas">
inserts a plain image into your page:
And if we add this to our CSS:
img { border-color: #7d6b72; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px; }
Then our image appears like this:
Actually, I would use shortcuts and write my CSS like this:
img { border: 5px solid #7d6b72; }
Tags: image border with CSS
This post was written by: Andrea BarnettThis entry was posted on Sunday, April 18th, 2010 at 9:22 pm and is filed under CSS Basics, CSS Misc, Killer CSS Tips and Tricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.



I;m seriously in love with CSS, it’s magical! I love adding borders to images, great post.