CSS Properties: How to set the width of an outline

Last update on February 23 2024 13:04:49 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

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 width of an outline</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
div { /* Styles all div elements */
  border:5px solid #CCCC00; /* Sets a solid border around the divs with a light yellow color */
  outline-style:solid; /* Sets the style of the outline to "solid" */
  outline-color:#660000; /* Sets the color of the outline to a dark red color */
  outline-width:thick; /* Sets the width of the outline to a thick width */
} /* Ends the div styling */
</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 -->
<div>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.</div><!-- Displays a div element with text content -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set the width of an outline around div elements using CSS.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The div elements are styled with: