Title: Adding a border
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding a border

 *  [Weeman86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weeman86/)
 * (@weeman86)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-border-4/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * First I’d like to say, I’m new to all this stuff so I’m kinda what you could 
   call a newbie 🙂
 * But I had a question about adding borders to for example the body of a page. 
   If you take a look at the site I made (with help of others ofc), I would like
   to add a vertical border between the body and the right side bar on the following
   page [http://www.dso-alkmaar.nl/over-dso](http://www.dso-alkmaar.nl/over-dso).
 * What I would like to do it to create the illusion that the body is slightly higher
   then the right side bar. This like on the following site [http://www.vi.nl/](http://www.vi.nl/).
 * If there is anyone who could help me out, it would be very much appreciated!
 * Frank

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 *  [julienne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julienne/)
 * (@julienne)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-border-4/#post-4052151)
 * It looks like javacript and ‘Fancybox
 * Remember though that some visitors could have Javascript turned off.
 *  Thread Starter [Weeman86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weeman86/)
 * (@weeman86)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-border-4/#post-4052155)
 * Oh oke, I thought it was something ‘simple’ as adding a code.
    But in that case
   I guess I have to figure out some other way, because I’m not familiar with javascript
   or Fancybox 🙂
 *  [julienne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julienne/)
 * (@julienne)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-border-4/#post-4052157)
 * lol neither am I, if I find out I will update.
 * I know one or two .nl people. The site is .nl domain.
 * If you ever need to know about a site and your on F.F then down load Firebug.
 * [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/?src=hp-dl-mostpopular)
 * In F.F tools right click web developer -> page source.
 * Just put in an address in Redhat
 * [Colors<a/>](http://redalt.com/ilyc)
 * Finds all the colors on a Web Site.
    HTH
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-border-4/#post-4052162)
 * To achieve something similar to that you would need to add both a border, and
   a box-shadow to the .span8 div
 * something like this should be a great starting point for you:
 * `.span8 { box-shadow: 3px 1px 1px #d1d1d1; }`
 * If you are working off of a theme you have downloaded I would recommend creating
   a child theme, and adding that to your child theme CSS file.
 * Otherwise add it to your themes main css file.
 *  Thread Starter [Weeman86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weeman86/)
 * (@weeman86)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-border-4/#post-4052206)
 * Thanks for the tips Julienne, I’ll go take a look at that!
    And thank you to 
   Evan, I’ll give that code a try.
 * I’ll keep you updated! 😀

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-border-4/#post-4052206)
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