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Borders

Use border utilities to quickly style the border and border-radius of an element. Great for images, buttons, or any other element.

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Border

Use border utilities to add or remove an element’s borders. Choose from all borders or one at a time.

Additive

Add borders to custom elements:

html 
<span class="border"></span>
<span class="border-top"></span>
<span class="border-end"></span>
<span class="border-bottom"></span>
<span class="border-start"></span>

Subtractive

Or remove borders:

html 
<span class="border border-0"></span>
<span class="border border-top-0"></span>
<span class="border border-end-0"></span>
<span class="border border-bottom-0"></span>
<span class="border border-start-0"></span>

Color

Border utilities like .border-* that generated from our original $theme-colors Sass map don’t yet respond to color modes, however, any .border-*-subtle utility will. This will be resolved in v6.

Change the border color using utilities built on our theme colors.

html 
<span class="border border-primary"></span>
<span class="border border-primary-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-secondary"></span>
<span class="border border-secondary-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-success"></span>
<span class="border border-success-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-danger"></span>
<span class="border border-danger-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-warning"></span>
<span class="border border-warning-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-info"></span>
<span class="border border-info-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-light"></span>
<span class="border border-light-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-dark"></span>
<span class="border border-dark-subtle"></span>
<span class="border border-black"></span>
<span class="border border-white"></span>

Or modify the default border-color of a component:

Dangerous heading
Changing border color and width
html 
<div class="mb-4">
  <label for="exampleFormControlInput1" class="form-label">Email address</label>
  <input type="email" class="form-control border-success" id="exampleFormControlInput1" placeholder="name@example.com">
</div>

<div class="h4 pb-2 mb-4 text-danger border-bottom border-danger">
  Dangerous heading
</div>

<div class="p-3 bg-info bg-opacity-10 border border-info border-start-0 rounded-end">
  Changing border color and width
</div>

Opacity

Bootstrap border-{color} utilities are generated with Sass using CSS variables. This allows for real-time color changes without compilation and dynamic alpha transparency changes.

How it works

Consider our default .border-success utility.

.border-success {
  --bs-border-opacity: 1;
  border-color: rgba(var(--bs-success-rgb), var(--bs-border-opacity)) !important;
}

We use an RGB version of our --bs-success (with the value of 25, 135, 84) CSS variable and attached a second CSS variable, --bs-border-opacity, for the alpha transparency (with a default value 1 thanks to a local CSS variable). That means anytime you use .border-success now, your computed color value is rgba(25, 135, 84, 1). The local CSS variable inside each .border-* class avoids inheritance issues so nested instances of the utilities don’t automatically have a modified alpha transparency.

Example

To change that opacity, override --bs-border-opacity via custom styles or inline styles.

This is default success border
This is 50% opacity success border
html 
<div class="border border-success p-2 mb-2">This is default success border</div>
<div class="border border-success p-2" style="--bs-border-opacity: .5;">This is 50% opacity success border</div>

Or, choose from any of the .border-opacity utilities:

This is default success border
This is 75% opacity success border
This is 50% opacity success border
This is 25% opacity success border
This is 10% opacity success border
html 
<div class="border border-success p-2 mb-2">This is default success border</div>
<div class="border border-success p-2 mb-2 border-opacity-75">This is 75% opacity success border</div>
<div class="border border-success p-2 mb-2 border-opacity-50">This is 50% opacity success border</div>
<div class="border border-success p-2 mb-2 border-opacity-25">This is 25% opacity success border</div>
<div class="border border-success p-2 border-opacity-10">This is 10% opacity success border</div>

Width

html 
<span class="border border-1"></span>
<span class="border border-2"></span>
<span class="border border-3"></span>
<span class="border border-4"></span>
<span class="border border-5"></span>

Radius

Add classes to an element to easily round its corners.

Example rounded image75x75 Example top rounded image75x75 Example right rounded image75x75 Example bottom rounded image75x75 Example left rounded image75x75 Completely round image75x75 Rounded pill image150x75
html 
<img src="..." class="rounded" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-top" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-end" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-bottom" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-start" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-circle" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-pill" alt="...">

Sizes

Use the scaling classes for larger or smaller rounded corners. Sizes range from 0 to 5, and can be configured by modifying the utilities API.

Example non-rounded image75x75 Example small rounded image75x75 Example default rounded image75x75 Example large rounded image75x75 Example larger rounded image75x75 Example extra large rounded image75x75
html 
<img src="..." class="rounded-0" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-1" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-2" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-3" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-4" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-5" alt="...">
Example small rounded image75x75 Example default left rounded image75x75 Example right completely round image75x75 Example left rounded pill image75x75 Example extra large bottom rounded image75x75
html 
<img src="..." class="rounded-bottom-1" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-start-2" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-end-circle" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-start-pill" alt="...">
<img src="..." class="rounded-5 rounded-top-0" alt="...">

CSS

Variables

node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_root.scss 
--#{$prefix}border-width: #{$border-width};
--#{$prefix}border-style: #{$border-style};
--#{$prefix}border-color: #{$border-color};
--#{$prefix}border-color-translucent: #{$border-color-translucent};

--#{$prefix}border-radius: #{$border-radius};
--#{$prefix}border-radius-sm: #{$border-radius-sm};
--#{$prefix}border-radius-lg: #{$border-radius-lg};
--#{$prefix}border-radius-xl: #{$border-radius-xl};
--#{$prefix}border-radius-xxl: #{$border-radius-xxl};
--#{$prefix}border-radius-2xl: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xxl); // Deprecated in v5.3.0 for consistency
--#{$prefix}border-radius-pill: #{$border-radius-pill};

Sass variables

node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_variables.scss 
$border-width:                1px;
$border-widths: (
  1: 1px,
  2: 2px,
  3: 3px,
  4: 4px,
  5: 5px
);
$border-style:                solid;
$border-color:                $gray-300;
$border-color-translucent:    rgba($black, .175);
node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_variables.scss 
$border-radius:               .375rem;
$border-radius-sm:            .25rem;
$border-radius-lg:            .5rem;
$border-radius-xl:            1rem;
$border-radius-xxl:           2rem;
$border-radius-pill:          50rem;

Variables for setting border-color in .border-*-subtle utilities in light and dark mode:

node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_variables.scss 
$primary-border-subtle:   tint-color($primary, 60%);
$secondary-border-subtle: tint-color($secondary, 60%);
$success-border-subtle:   tint-color($success, 60%);
$info-border-subtle:      tint-color($info, 60%);
$warning-border-subtle:   tint-color($warning, 60%);
$danger-border-subtle:    tint-color($danger, 60%);
$light-border-subtle:     $gray-200;
$dark-border-subtle:      $gray-500;
node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_variables-dark.scss 
$primary-border-subtle-dark:        shade-color($primary, 40%);
$secondary-border-subtle-dark:      shade-color($secondary, 40%);
$success-border-subtle-dark:        shade-color($success, 40%);
$info-border-subtle-dark:           shade-color($info, 40%);
$warning-border-subtle-dark:        shade-color($warning, 40%);
$danger-border-subtle-dark:         shade-color($danger, 40%);
$light-border-subtle-dark:          $gray-700;
$dark-border-subtle-dark:           $gray-800;

Sass maps

Color mode adaptive border colors are also available as a Sass map:

node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_maps.scss 
$theme-colors-border-subtle: (
  "primary": $primary-border-subtle,
  "secondary": $secondary-border-subtle,
  "success": $success-border-subtle,
  "info": $info-border-subtle,
  "warning": $warning-border-subtle,
  "danger": $danger-border-subtle,
  "light": $light-border-subtle,
  "dark": $dark-border-subtle,
);
node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_maps.scss 
$theme-colors-border-subtle-dark: (
  "primary": $primary-border-subtle-dark,
  "secondary": $secondary-border-subtle-dark,
  "success": $success-border-subtle-dark,
  "info": $info-border-subtle-dark,
  "warning": $warning-border-subtle-dark,
  "danger": $danger-border-subtle-dark,
  "light": $light-border-subtle-dark,
  "dark": $dark-border-subtle-dark,
);

Sass mixins

node_modules/bootstrap/scss/mixins/_border-radius.scss 
@mixin border-radius($radius: $border-radius, $fallback-border-radius: false) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
  @else if $fallback-border-radius != false {
    border-radius: $fallback-border-radius;
  }
}

@mixin border-top-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-top-left-radius: valid-radius($radius);
    border-top-right-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

@mixin border-end-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-top-right-radius: valid-radius($radius);
    border-bottom-right-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

@mixin border-bottom-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-bottom-right-radius: valid-radius($radius);
    border-bottom-left-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

@mixin border-start-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-top-left-radius: valid-radius($radius);
    border-bottom-left-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

@mixin border-top-start-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-top-left-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

@mixin border-top-end-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-top-right-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

@mixin border-bottom-end-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-bottom-right-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

@mixin border-bottom-start-radius($radius: $border-radius) {
  @if $enable-rounded {
    border-bottom-left-radius: valid-radius($radius);
  }
}

Sass utilities API

Border utilities are declared in our utilities API in scss/_utilities.scss. Learn how to use the utilities API.

node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_utilities.scss 
"border": (
  property: border,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-width) var(--#{$prefix}border-style) var(--#{$prefix}border-color),
    0: 0,
  )
),
"border-top": (
  property: border-top,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-width) var(--#{$prefix}border-style) var(--#{$prefix}border-color),
    0: 0,
  )
),
"border-end": (
  property: border-right,
  class: border-end,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-width) var(--#{$prefix}border-style) var(--#{$prefix}border-color),
    0: 0,
  )
),
"border-bottom": (
  property: border-bottom,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-width) var(--#{$prefix}border-style) var(--#{$prefix}border-color),
    0: 0,
  )
),
"border-start": (
  property: border-left,
  class: border-start,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-width) var(--#{$prefix}border-style) var(--#{$prefix}border-color),
    0: 0,
  )
),
"border-color": (
  property: border-color,
  class: border,
  local-vars: (
    "border-opacity": 1
  ),
  values: $utilities-border-colors
),
"subtle-border-color": (
  property: border-color,
  class: border,
  values: $utilities-border-subtle
),
"border-width": (
  property: border-width,
  class: border,
  values: $border-widths
),
"border-opacity": (
  css-var: true,
  class: border-opacity,
  values: (
    10: .1,
    25: .25,
    50: .5,
    75: .75,
    100: 1
  )
),
node_modules/bootstrap/scss/_utilities.scss 
"rounded": (
  property: border-radius,
  class: rounded,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    0: 0,
    1: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-sm),
    2: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    3: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-lg),
    4: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xl),
    5: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xxl),
    circle: 50%,
    pill: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-pill)
  )
),
"rounded-top": (
  property: border-top-left-radius border-top-right-radius,
  class: rounded-top,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    0: 0,
    1: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-sm),
    2: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    3: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-lg),
    4: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xl),
    5: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xxl),
    circle: 50%,
    pill: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-pill)
  )
),
"rounded-end": (
  property: border-top-right-radius border-bottom-right-radius,
  class: rounded-end,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    0: 0,
    1: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-sm),
    2: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    3: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-lg),
    4: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xl),
    5: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xxl),
    circle: 50%,
    pill: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-pill)
  )
),
"rounded-bottom": (
  property: border-bottom-right-radius border-bottom-left-radius,
  class: rounded-bottom,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    0: 0,
    1: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-sm),
    2: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    3: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-lg),
    4: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xl),
    5: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xxl),
    circle: 50%,
    pill: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-pill)
  )
),
"rounded-start": (
  property: border-bottom-left-radius border-top-left-radius,
  class: rounded-start,
  values: (
    null: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    0: 0,
    1: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-sm),
    2: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius),
    3: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-lg),
    4: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xl),
    5: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-xxl),
    circle: 50%,
    pill: var(--#{$prefix}border-radius-pill)
  )
),