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Borders and Border Radius in Tailwind CSS

Tailwind provides utility classes to control border width, color, and corner radius, allowing for quick and flexible styling of element outlines and rounded corners.

1. Border Width

Use classes like border, border-2, border-4, etc. to define thickness:

border
border-4
Top Border

2. Border Color

Apply border color using border-{color} classes:

Red Border
Green Border
Blue Border

3. Border Radius

Control rounding with classes like rounded, rounded-lg, rounded-full:

rounded
rounded-lg
rounded-full

4. Individual Corners

Tailwind also allows rounding specific corners:

Top Rounded
Bottom-Left Rounded
Top-Right Full

5. Best Practices

  • Use rounded consistently to create visual softness
  • Combine border color with background contrast
  • Use rounded-full for circles or avatars

Conclusion

Tailwind's border utilities give you complete control over element outlines and rounded edges without writing custom CSS. Great for cards, buttons, avatars, and layout boxes.