hrStyle

Summary: Add styles to an HTML hr element using %style% markup

Version: 2026-05-28

Prerequisites: Preferably PHP Version 8.5 but as low as 8.2, anything older has reached PHP "End of life" and might work, I do not support PHP version 5

Status: ready

Maintainer: --gnuzoo April 29, 2026, at 04:55 AM

License: GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org either version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version

Categories: Uncategorized

Users: (view / edit)

Discussion: hrStyle-Talk

Downloads: hrStyle.php Δ

Questions answered by this recipe

Horizontal rulers are all the same and its a hassle to add 3 lines using
the 'icky spider' markup (>><<) to style the HTML <hr/> element and I dont
want to use an external CSS file.

Description

With this recipe you can set styles for you HR

Its easy to use, just put style in from of the 4 dashes.
The only thing allowed in front of the 4 dashes are styles like this:

%margin-left=0 width=20px%----
%margin-left=0 width=50px red%----
%margin-left=0 white width=70px%----
%margin-left=0 blue width=90px%----
%margin-left=0 rebeccapurple width=120px%----
%green%----
----

Screen capture of some colorful <hr> elements

Installation

Copy (right-click, save link as, ...) hrStyle.php Δ to cookbook directory and include it in your config.php file or you farmconfig.php file.

    require_once("$FarmD/cookbook/hrStyle.php") ;

Change log / Release notes

Release 1: Version 2026-04-28 - initial Release

Comments

See discussion at hrStyle-Talk

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