Need some help with forum CSS styling

[abrodski]

Hello guys!

I'm currently setting up my forum and I want to change some defaults.
I have SMF 2.0.2
The problem is that by default it doesn't have a post separator. But there's a mod to change that. Basically it modifies 2 files: Display.template.php and index.css
My question is about the latter one. It adds this at the end of the file:

.seperate {
/* border: 5px solid #fff; thickness and color of box outline*/
margin: 7px auto; /*to push the gap between the posts*/
}


I do get the white spacing between the posts, BUT what I had in mind was something that goes a little beyond that. I attached a file that shows how I would like it to look like more or less. The color of the border could be solid one, that's not so critical to me.
When I tried to uncomment the 2nd line, what happened is that I got a border around the post and everywhere (ie. top, bottom, right and left) was the same. Same thickness that is...
Anyway, if anybody knows what to do please let me know!

[johnny04]

if you don't want to have every side a border you can do a separate declare for each side..

border-top: 5px solid #fff;
border-right: 5px solid #f00;
border-bottom: 5px solid #0f0;
border-left: 5px solid #00f;

[ihsan34]

give border from side which you want separately. border-eft:3px solide #000; border-top:2px solide #ff0000; etc,

[abrodski]

Sorry, I was away...
Thanks a lot for your help!

[anuja]

i think you can use borders to he side which you want to use separately