Title: Help for simple shortcode coding
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help for simple shortcode coding

 *  [kkanedaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kkanedaa/)
 * (@kkanedaa)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-simple-shortcode-coding/)
 * Hey everyone,
 * I am one step away from finishing my WordPress powered website. But there is 
   one small thing remaining to make it look as I wish.
 * What I am looking for is to write a shortcode that outputs a simple dotted divider.
   The shortcode should look something like this [dotted_divider]. The divider should
   have a 5px top and bottom margin so when using this divider, there will automatically
   be a nice white space between texts.
 * Can anyone help me out?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-simple-shortcode-coding/#post-2385662)
 * Why don’t you just set up a css class for the `<hr>` tag?
 * Like this in your CSS:
 *     ```
       hr.ruler {
         border: 1px dotted #ff0000;
         border-style: none none dotted;
         width: 100%;
         color: #f00;
         background-color: #f00;
         height: 2px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Then you can simply call it at anytime by writing `<hr class="ruler" />` in your
   posts/pages.

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## Tags

 * [divider](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/divider/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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 * Last reply from: [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-simple-shortcode-coding/#post-2385662)
 * Status: not resolved

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