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CSS Outline Properties

CSS outline property is used to draw a line around the element, outside the border.
The CSS outline property defines the width, style, and color of the outline of an element.
It is a shorthand property for defining the outline-width, outline-style, and outline-color CSS properties.
  • Outline-style
  • Outline-color
  • Outline-width
  • Outline-offset

CSS Outline Style:

The outline-style property set the style or type of outline.
It has following values: none, hidden, dashed, dotted, double, groove, inset, outset, ridge and solid.

Example:

h1.none {

outline-style: none;

}

h1.dotted {

outline-style: dotted;

}

h1.dashed {

outline-style: dashed;

}

h1.solid {

outline-style: solid;

}

h1.double {

outline-style: double;

}

h1.groove {

outline-style: groove;

}

h1.ridge {

outline-style: ridge;

}

h1.inset {

outline-style: inset;

}

h1.outset {

outline-style: outset;

}

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CSS Outline Color:

The outline-color property specifies the color of the outline. You can set the color by its name, RGB value or hex value.

Example:

h1 {

outline-style: solid;

outline-color: green;

}
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Note: If you are using, the outline-color property alone then it does not work. Use the outline-style property to set the outline first and then set the outline-color.

CSS Outline Width:

By using outline-width property, you can set the width of the outline. 
The width can be defined as a specific size (in px, pt, cm, em, etc) or by using one of the three pre-defined values: thin, medium, or thick.

Example:

h2 {

border: 1px solid black;

outline-style: solid;

outline-width: thin;

}

h3 {

border: 1px solid black;

outline-style: solid;

outline-width: medium;

}

h4 {

border: 1px solid black;

outline-style: solid;

outline-width: thick;

}

h5 {

border: 1px solid black;

outline-style: solid;

outline-width: 4px;

}

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The CSS Outline Shorthand Property:

The outline CSS property is a shorthand property, allows you to specify one or more of the individual outline properties outline-width, outline-style, and outline-color in a single rule.

Example:

h2 {

outline: 2px dotted blue;

}

h3 {

outline: thin solid blue;

}
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CSS Outline Offset:

The outline-offset property is used to set the space between the outline and the border of the HTML element. This space is transparent.

Example:

h2 {

border: 1px solid black;

outline: 1px solid #ff5722;

outline-offset: 15px;

background-color: yellow;

margin: 20px;

}
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Outlines are very similar to borders, but there are few major differences.
  • An outline does not take up space.
  • Outlines do not have to be rectangular.
  • Outline is same on all sides; you cannot specify different values for different sides of an element.

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