CSS Properties: How to set the outline around a paragraph element

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Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to set the outline around a paragraph element</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p { /* Styles all paragraph elements */
  border: 1px solid #FF6600; /* Sets a solid border around the paragraph with color #FF6600 */
  outline: #3333FF dashed thick; /* Sets an outline around the paragraph with color #3333FF, dashed style, and thickness "thick" */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<h2>w3resource Tutorial</h2><!-- Displays a level 2 heading -->
<p><!-- Paragraph element begins -->
CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.
</p><!-- Paragraph element ends -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set an outline around a paragraph element using CSS.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The paragraph element is styled with a solid border using the "border" property.
An outline is applied to the paragraph element using the "outline" property, which specifies the color, style, and thickness of the outline.
The paragraph element contains text content describing CSS and its usage in web development.

Live Demo:

See the Pen outline-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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