# Top & Bottom borders for an element don't show in IE

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/top-bottom-borders-for-an-element-dont-show-in-ie/65849>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [September 30, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/top-bottom-borders-for-an-element-dont-show-in-ie/65849 "2004-09-30T01:18:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/top-bottom-borders-for-an-element-dont-show-in-ie/65849/1 "2004-09-30T01:18:38Z")

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Hey all,

I’m making a layout (css/html), and suddenly noticed that in a \<ul\> \<li\> tag, the top and bottom borders don’t display in IE. How do i fix this?

Thanks =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/top-bottom-borders-for-an-element-dont-show-in-ie/65849/2 "2004-09-30T01:31:07Z")

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Never mind! figured it out. The display: inline makes IE think that it’s… well, inline. Float: left does the trick 🙂

By the way, i didn’t notice the board allowed html tags.