17.3.1.7 bottom

This element specifies the border which shall be displayed below a set of paragraphs which have the same paragraph border settings.

To determine if any two adjoining paragraphs shall have an individual top and bottom border or a between border, the set of borders on the two adjoining paragraphs are compared. If the border information on those two paragraphs is different, then the first paragraph shall use its bottom border and the following paragraph shall use its top border. Otherwise, the between border is used. If this border specifies a space attribute, that

value determines the space after the bottom of the text (ignoring any space below) which should be left before this border is drawn, specified in points.

If this element is omitted on a given paragraph, its value is determined by the setting previously set at any level of the style hierarchy (i.e. that previous setting remains unchanged). If this setting is never specified in the style hierarchy, then no between border shall be applied below identical paragraphs.

[Example: Consider the following two paragraphs’ WordprocessingML definition:

<w:p>
  <w:pPr>
    <w:pBdr>
      <w:top w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="1" w:color="F2DCDB"
w:themeColor="accent2" w:themeTint="33" />
      <w:left w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="4" w:color="B97034"
w:themeColor="accent6" w:themeShade="BF" />
      <w:bottom w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="1" w:color="F2DCDB"
w:themeColor="accent2" w:themeTint="33" />
      <w:right w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="4" w:color="C3D69B"
w:themeColor="accent3" w:themeTint="99" />
      <w:between w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="1" w:color="4F81BD"
w:themeColor="accent1" />
    </w:pBdr>
  </w:pPr>
  <w:r>
    <w:t>First paragraph.</w:t>
  </w:r>
</w:p>
<w:p>
  <w:pPr>
    <w:pBdr>
      <w:top w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="1" w:color="F2DCDB"
w:themeColor="accent2" w:themeTint="33" />
      <w:left w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="4" w:color="B97034"
w:themeColor="accent6" w:themeShade="BF" />
      <w:bottom w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="0" w:color="F2DCDB"
w:themeColor="accent2" w:themeTint="33" />
      <w:right w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="4" w:color="C3D69B"
w:themeColor="accent3" w:themeTint="99" />
      <w:between w:val="single" w:sz="24" w:space="1" w:color="4F81BD"
w:themeColor="accent1" />
    </w:pBdr>
  </w:pPr>
  <w:r>
    <w:t>Second paragraph.</w:t>
  </w:r>
</w:p>

Since the paragraph border is different between the two paragraphs (the bottom space value goes from 1 to 0), paragraph one uses its bottom border, which is located one point below the text in that paragraph. end example]

This element’s content model is defined by the common border properties definition in 17.3.4.