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Add border elements


Outline boundaries, break a design into sections, or drive focus to added text, images, or videos by adding borders.

You can’t add photos to borders. Use frames or grids instead. You may also add borders and rounded corners to elements from the toolbar.

Add border elements

  1. Create or open a design.
  2. From the editor side panel, select
    Elements.
  3. In the Search elements field, enter “borders,” then press Enter.
  4. Browse the search results to find a border.
  5. Select a border to add it to your design.

For more options like refining results and adjusting AI quality, see how to add, duplicate, and delete elements

To duplicate a selected border, press Cmd + D (Mac) or Ctrl + D (Windows).

To resize borders, click to select it, and drag any of the white circle handles on the edges in or out.

To change its colour, click or tap to select it, and click the colour tile from the editor toolbar. See Changing element colour for more details.

To see more from a contributor, hover over an element from the editor side panel. Click the

Show details popup icon that appears, and click View more by contributor below the element title.

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