outline

The outline property lets you draw lines at the edges of fields on any device that supports double-byte characters. Valid values are as follows:
box
Draw lines to create a box around the field content
noOutline (the default)
Draw no lines
In addition, you can specify any or all of the components of a box. In this case, place brackets around one or more values, with each value separated from the next by a comma, as in this example:
  outline = [left, over, right, under]
The partial values are as follows:
left
Draw a vertical line at the left edge of the field
over
Draw a horizontal line at the top edge of the field
right
Draw a vertical line at the right edge of the field
under
Draw a horizontal line at the bottom edge of the field

The content of each form field is preceded by an attribute byte. Be aware that you cannot place an attribute byte in the last column of a form and expect an outline value to appear in the next column, which is beyond the form's edge. (The field does not wrap to the next line.) Similarly, you cannot place an attribute byte in the first column of a form and expect the outline value to appear in that column; the outline value can appear only in the next column.

Related concepts
Enumerations in EGL
Overview of EGL properties

Related reference
Field-presentation properties

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