`row-rule-visibility-items` CSS property

The row-rule-visibility-items CSS property defines whether a row-rule segment is painted in gaps adjacent to empty areas.

Try it

row-rule-visibility-items: all;

row-rule-visibility-items: around;

row-rule-visibility-items: between;

row-rule-visibility-items: normal;

<section id="default-example">
  <section id="example-element">
    <p>One fish</p>
    <p>Two fish</p>
    <p>Red fish</p>
    <p>Blue fish</p>
    <cite>-- Dr. Seuss</cite>
  </section>
</section>

#example-element {
  display: grid;
  row-rule: solid 5px red;
  gap: 10px;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
  grid-template-rows: repeat(3, 1fr);
}
cite {
  grid-column: 3;
  grid-row: 3;
}

Syntax

/* Keywords */
row-rule-visibility-items: all;
row-rule-visibility-items: around;
row-rule-visibility-items: between;
row-rule-visibility-items: normal;

/* Global values */
row-rule-visibility-items: inherit;
row-rule-visibility-items: initial;
row-rule-visibility-items: revert;
row-rule-visibility-items: revert-layer;
row-rule-visibility-items: unset;

Values

This property is specified as one of the following keyword values:

all

The row rule should be painted in all gap segments, regardless of whether adjacent areas contain an item.

around

The row rule should be painted in a gap segment if at least one of the two adjacent areas is occupied by an item.

between

The row rule should be painted in a gap segment if both adjacent areas are occupied by items.

normal

Behaves the same as all. This is the default.

Description

The row-rule-visibility-items property defines whether, in multi-column and grid containers with more than one row, row rule segments are painted in the gaps between two adjacent areas if one or both of the areas are empty.

The row-rule-visibility-items and column-rule-visibility-items properties can both be set to the same values using the rule-visibility-items shorthand.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

Examples

Basic example

In this example, we define a row rules to be drawn between two grid areas if at least one adjacent grid area contains grid items.

HTML

We include a list of dynamic sports duos:

<ol>
  <li>Simone Biles + Jonathan Owens</li>
  <li>Serena Williams + Venus Williams</li>
  <li>Aaron Judge + Giancarlo Stanton</li>
  <li>LeBron James + Dwyane Wade</li>
  <li>Xavi Hernandez + Andres Iniesta</li>
  <li>Kerri Walsh + Misty May Treanor</li>
</ol>

CSS

We define the ordered list (<ol>) to be a grid container, creating 4 rows and 4 columns by setting both the grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns properties to repeat(4, 1fr), and move the last item to the bottom-right grid area using grid-row and grid-column. We include a gap of 20px to provide enough room between the rows to fit our 5px dashed rule.

Finally, we set row-rule-visibility-items to around, so that a row rule segment is only painted in a row gap if one or both adjacent grid areas contain a grid item.

ol {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
  grid-template-rows: repeat(4, 1fr);
  gap: 10px;

  row-rule: dashed 5px blue;
  row-rule-visibility-items: around;
}
li:last-child {
  grid-column: 4;
  grid-row: 4;
}

li {
  margin-left: 1em;
}
@layer no-support {
  @supports not (row-rule-visibility-items: around) {
    body::before {
      content: "Your browser doesn't support the row-rule-visibility-items property";
      background-color: wheat;
      display: block;
      text-align: center;
      padding: 1rem 0;
    }
  }
}

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• rule-visibility-items shorthand
• column-rule-visibility-items
• row-rule shorthand
• rule shorthand
• CSS gaps module