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CSS3 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Cascading Style Sheets Language
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CSS3 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Cascading Style Sheets Language

by Mikael Olsson
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
2h 45m
English
Apress
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Mikael OlssonCSS3 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4903-1_18

18. Outline

Mikael Olsson1 
(1)
Hammarland, Finland
 

The outline is a line drawn around an element, outside the border edge. It is typically rendered as a dotted line around interactive elements to show which element has focus. Although similar to the border, the outline differs in that it does not take up any space in the box model. Furthermore, unlike the border, all four sides of the outline must be the same. The outline properties can be applied to any element, and none of them inherits.

outline-style

The style of the outline is set with the outline-style property . To display the outline, the value needs to be set to something other than
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