Why aren't my borders showing?

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I'm new to html & css (self taught) and playing around with borders in css. But when I open the file in my browser, the borders aren't being shown. So far all my other practice projects with css work; i.e. color, box dimensions, text-dec, font, etc.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Borders</title>
<link href="css/border.css" text="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>

Border-Width

Hohner's "Clavinet" is essentially an electric clavichord.

</body>
</html>

p.one {
border-width: 2px;
}
p.two {
border-width: thick;
}
p.three {
border-width: 1px 4px 12px 4px;
}

Posted 7-May-15 6:16am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-07T07:38:00

Correct example:

HTML

<html>
   <head>
      <title>Borders</title>
      <style type="text/css">
         p { padding: 1em; }
         .one { border: solid thick; }
         .two { border: solid 2px; }
         .three { border: solid; border-width: 1px 4px 12px 4px; }
      </style>
   </head>
<body>

<p class="one">Hohner's "Clavinet" is essentially an electric clavichord.</p>
<p class="two">Hohner's "Pianet" is an electric piano.</p>
<p class="three">Hohner's "Guitaret" is an electric piano/kalimba-type instrument.</p>

</body>
</html>

You forgot the border property line type ("solid") and the syntax for different width for the same border on different sides.
Besides, I demonstrated that for a demo prototype, it can be important to use text closer to real content.

—SA