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Setting borders of an element

  

<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
      <title>Borders</title>

      <style type = "text/css">
         div     { text-align: center;
                   margin-bottom: 1em;
                   padding: .5em }

         .thick  { border-width: thick }
 
         .medium { border-width: medium }

         .thin   { border-width: thin }

         .groove { border-style: groove }

         .inset  { border-style: inset }

         .outset { border-style: outset }

         .red    { border-color: red }

         .blue   { border-color: blue }

      </style>
   </head>

   <body>

      <div class = "thick groove">this is a test. </div>
      <div class = "medium groove">this is a test. </div>
      <div class = "thin groove">this is a test. </div>

      <p class = "thin red inset">this is a test. </p>
      <p class = "medium blue outset">this is a test. </p>

   </body>
</html>








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