Horizontal Rule between <div>'s

Colin picture Colin · May 23, 2013 · Viewed 54.1k times · Source

Right now, I have 3 divs Content1, Content2, Content3

I want to add a simple stylized rule to separate the content in each. Here is the code that I am working with.

HTML

     <div id="Content1">
     <p><strong>Content1</strong></p>
     </div>

     <div id="Content2">
     <p><strong>Content2</strong></p>
     </div>

     <div id="Content3">
     <p><strong>Content3</strong></p>
     </div>

I want to add a Horizontal Rule inbetween Content1 and Content2 and between Content2 and Content3.

I have included an image so you can see exactly what I mean.

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Thanks!

Answer

ralph.m picture ralph.m · May 23, 2013

Don't use <hr> for this, as it's chiefly a semantic element rather than presentational. A bottom border is ideal for this. E.g. http://codepen.io/pageaffairs/pen/pjbkA

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">

<style media="all">

div {width: 500px; padding-bottom: 10px; }
#Content1, #Content2 {border-bottom: 3px solid #4588ba; margin-bottom:10px;}
div p {background: #4588ba; line-height: 150px; font-size: 2em; font-family: sans-serif; color: white; margin: 0; padding-left: 30px;}

</style>

</head>
<body>

     <div id="Content1">
     <p><strong>Content1</strong></p>
     </div>

     <div id="Content2">
     <p><strong>Content2</strong></p>
     </div>

     <div id="Content3">
     <p><strong>Content3</strong></p>
     </div>

</body>
</html>