Blogger Post Image Borders Change or Remove

Sometimes you may want to remove, delete or change the image border of a custom Blogger template or default Blogger template (Blogspot template). In this Blogger tutorial you will learn how easy it is to make changes to your template so that you can get rid of unwanted image borders around all the images that appear in your blog posts or around a single image in a blog post.

You will also learn how to enhance your Blogger template (Blogspot template) by changing the line color and line style of the existing image borders.

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Note this Blogger tutorial applies to custom templates and the previous generation of Blogger templates. If you are using the new default Blogger Template Simple please refer to my Blogger tutorial How to Remove the Image Border in Blogger template Simple for instructions

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This Blogspot tutorial is rated easy. It involves making minor alterations to your Blogger template (Blogspot template) but this is well within the capabilities of beginner bloggers and newbies. The changes will take less than 5 minutes to complete and can make the world of difference to your Blogger template.

How to Delete, Remove, Get Rid of the Image Border in Blogger Posts
The following instructions will remove the little border around the images in your Blogger posts.

1. Login into Blogger if not already logged in
   
2. From the Dashboard navigate to your blog. Go to Design > Edit HTML by clicking on the Design tab and then choosing the Edit HTML link
   
3. Back up your existing Blogger template by clicking on the Download Full Template button
   
4. Find the following code in your Blogger template (no need to check the Expand Widgets Template box as we are only working with the CSS Style Sheet). Note: the code in Blogger templates varies but this is the code you will find on a Blogger Minima template and most other default Blogger templates.
   
   

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   .post img {
   padding:4px;
   border:1px solid $bordercolor;
   }
   

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   If you do not have this code look for the following:
   
   

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   img{
   padding: 4px;
   border:1px solid $bordercolor;
   }
   

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5. There are two ways to get rid of the unwanted border image code. You can either:
   
   
   • Remove the following line:
     
     

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     border:1px solid $bordercolor;
     

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     or
     
   • Change it to the following
     

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     border:0px;
     

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6. Click on the Save Template button
   
7. Click View Blog to admire your post images minus any image border.

How to Change the Color of the Image Border Around Posts in a Blogger Template
The following instructions will show you how to change the color of the border which appears around images in your Blogger posts

1. Follow Steps 1 to 4 as per removing the image border from Blogger posts.
   
2. There are several methods to change the color of the image border but the easiest is to
   
   
   • Change the following line:
     

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     border:1px solid $bordercolor;
     

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     to
     

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     border:1px solid #6698FF;
     

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     The above change will make the border line color sky blue. To change the color (in red) to your own color choice replace with the hex color code for your chosen color
3. Click the Save Template button to save your changes
   
4. Click on View Blog to admire the new color around the images in your Blogger posts

Tips and Troubleshooting

• To change the image border line style from a solid line to a dotted line change the word solid to dotted eg
  
  

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  border:1px dotted $bordercolor;
  

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• To change the image border line style from a solid line to a dashed line change the word solid to dashed eg
  
  

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  border:1px dashed $bordercolor;
  

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• To increase the width of the image border change the size from 1px to 2px or 3px eg
  
  

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  border:3px solid $bordercolor;
  

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• To Remove The Image Border Around Only One Image paste the following into your image code in your Blogger post:
  
  

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  style="border:none"
  

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  eg
  <img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 126px; height: 22px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vLeiVavkV_M/SrRp2wb1I_I/AAAAAAAAAAA/XXXXXXXXX/s200/download-now.png" border="0" style="border:none" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_XXXXXXXXXXXX" />

In this Blogger tutorial you have learned how to remove, delete and get rid of the line border which appears around images in your Blogger posts (Blogspot posts). You have also learned how to change the line color of the border image to your own chosen hex color. In addition I have shown you how to change the line style from solid to dotted or dashed and to remove the border around a single image. As always any problems with making these changes please let me know. Good luck!


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