CSS | box decoration break Property

The box-decoration-break property is used to control the box decoration after fragmentation of paragraph. It defines the background, padding, border, margin, and clip-path of an element that is applied when the box for the element is broken into separated parts.

Syntax:

box-decoration-break: slice|clone|initial|inherit;

Property values:
slice: This property breaks the edges of the element fragments as a whole.

Syntax:
```
box-decoration-break: slice;
```

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>box-decoration-break property</title> 
        <style> 
            body { 
               text-align:center;  
               width:80%; 
            } 
            span { 
                border: 2px solid green; 
                padding: 5px; 
                border-radius: 6px; 
                font-size: 24px; 
                line-height: 3; 
                  
            } 
            span.geek{  
                -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; 
                -o-box-decoration-break: slice; 
                box-decoration-break: slice; 
                  
            } 
            .gfg { 
                font-size: 40px; 
                color: green; 
                font-weight: bold; 
            } 
        </style> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <div class = "gfg">GeeksforGeeks</div> 
        <div class = "geeks"> 
          A computer science portal for geeks 
        </div> 
        <h2>box-decoration-break: slice;</h2> 
        <span class="geek"> 
            Prepare for the Recruitment drive 
            of product based companies<br> 
            like Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe etc  
            with a free online placement<br> 
            preparation course. The course focuses  
            on various MCQ's & Coding<br> 
            question likely to be asked in the  
            interviews & make your<br> 
            upcoming placement season efficient 
            and successful. 
        </span> 
    </body> 
</html>                     

Output:

Clone: It is used to decorate each fragment of the element as if the fragments were unbroken, individual elements. Borders wrap the four edges of each fragment of the element, and backgrounds are redrawn in full for each fragment.

Syntax:
```
box-decoration-break: clone;
```

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>box-decoration-break property</title> 
        <style> 
            body { 
               text-align:center;  
               width:80%; 
            } 
            span { 
                border: 2px solid green; 
                padding: 5px; 
                border-radius: 6px; 
                font-size: 24px; 
                line-height: 3; 
                  
            } 
            span.geek{  
                -webkit-box-decoration-break: clone; 
                -o-box-decoration-break: clone; 
                box-decoration-break: clone; 
                  
            } 
            .gfg { 
                font-size: 40px; 
                color: green; 
                font-weight: bold; 
            } 
        </style> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <div class = "gfg">GeeksforGeeks</div> 
        <div class = "geeks"> 
            A computer science portal for geeks 
        </div> 
        <h2>box-decoration-break: clone;</h2> 
        <span class="geek"> 
            Prepare for the Recruitment drive 
            of product based companies<br> 
            like Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe etc  
            with a free online placement<br> 
            preparation course. The course focuses  
            on various MCQ's & Coding<br> 
            question likely to be asked in the  
            interviews & make your<br> 
            upcoming placement season efficient 
            and successful. 
        </span> 
    </body> 
</html>                     

Output:

initial: It sets the property to its default value.

Syntax:
```
box-decoration-break: initial;
```

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>box-decoration-break property</title> 
        <style> 
            body { 
               text-align:center;  
               width:80%; 
            } 
            span { 
                border: 2px solid green; 
                padding: 5px; 
                border-radius: 6px; 
                font-size: 24px; 
                line-height: 3; 
                  
            } 
            span.geek{  
                -webkit-box-decoration-break: initial; 
                -o-box-decoration-break: initial; 
                box-decoration-break: initial; 
                  
            } 
            .gfg { 
                font-size: 40px; 
                color: green; 
                font-weight: bold; 
            } 
        </style> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <div class = "gfg">GeeksforGeeks</div> 
        <div class = "geeks"> 
            A computer science portal for geeks 
        </div> 
        <h2>box-decoration-break: initial;</h2> 
        <span class="geek"> 
            Prepare for the Recruitment drive 
            of product based companies<br> 
            like Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe etc  
            with a free online placement<br> 
            preparation course. The course focuses  
            on various MCQ's & Coding<br> 
            question likely to be asked in the  
            interviews & make your<br> 
            upcoming placement season efficient 
            and successful. 
        </span> 
    </body> 
</html>                     

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browsers supported by box-decoration-break Property are listed below:

Google Chrome 22.0 -webkit-
Firefox 32.0
Opera 11.5 -webkit-
Safari 6.1 -webkit-

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