# Border around a Button - coloured?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/border-around-a-button-coloured/211489>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [September 5, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/border-around-a-button-coloured/211489 "2011-09-05T16:19:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/border-around-a-button-coloured/211489/1 "2011-09-05T16:19:02Z")

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Is it possible to make a border in colours around a button easily?

In CSS:

border: 1px solid crimson;

Hmm… In CSS it is really easy… (I don’t use GTK Themes.)

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**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/border-around-a-button-coloured/211489/2 "2011-09-05T21:08:18Z")

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Marc H. wrote in post #1020224:

> Is it possible to make a border in colours around a button easily?
> 
> In CSS:
> 
> border: 1px solid crimson;

I don’t think it’s easy with GTK2, if at all possible.

Look at Gtk::Widget#modify\_style, modify\_fg, modify\_bg.

GTK3 has such features :

> **[\-](https://www.gnomejournal.org)**

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**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/border-around-a-button-coloured/211489/3 "2011-09-06T04:36:52Z")

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Thanks!

The CSS support in GTK3 looks ok too. 🙂