CSS border-color Property
Example
Set the color of the four borders:
p
{
border-style: solid;
border-color: #ff0000 #0000ff;
}
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Definition and Usage
The border-color property sets the color of an element's four borders. This property can have from one to four values.
Examples:
- border-color:red green blue pink;
- top border is red
- right border is green
- bottom border is blue
- left border is pink
- border-color:red green blue;
- top border is red
- right and left borders are green
- bottom border is blue
- border-color:red green;
- top and bottom borders are red
- right and left borders are green
- border-color:red;
- all four borders are red
Note: Always declare the border-style property before the border-color property. An element must have borders before you can change the color.
| Default value: | The current color of the element |
|---|---|
| Inherited: | no |
| Animatable: | yes. Read about animatable Try it |
| Version: | CSS1 |
| JavaScript syntax: | object.style.borderColor="#FF0000 blue" Try it |
Browser Support
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.
| Property | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| border-color | 1.0 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 |
Note: Internet Explorer 6 (and earlier versions) does not support the property value "transparent".
CSS Syntax
border-color: color|transparent|initial|inherit;
Property Values
| Value | Description | Play it |
|---|---|---|
| color | Specifies the background color. Look at CSS Color Values for a complete list of possible color values. Default color is black | Play it » |
| transparent | Specifies that the border color should be transparent | Play it » |
| initial | Sets this property to its default value. Read about initial | Play it » |
| inherit | Inherits this property from its parent element. Read about inherit |
Related Pages
CSS tutorial: CSS Border
HTML DOM reference: borderColor property
