The border-color
shorthand CSS property sets the color of all sides of an element's border.
Each side can be set individually using border-top-color
, border-right-color
, border-bottom-color
, and border-left-color
; or using the writing mode-aware border-block-start-color
, border-block-end-color
, border-inline-start-color
, and border-inline-end-color
.
You can find more information about border colors in Borders in Applying color to HTML elements using CSS.
/* <color> values */ border-color: red; /* vertical | horizontal */ border-color: red #f015ca; /* top | horizontal | bottom */ border-color: red rgb(240,30,50,.7) green; /* top | right | bottom | left */ border-color: red yellow green blue; /* Global values */ border-color: inherit; border-color: initial; border-color: unset;
The border-color
property may be specified using one, two, three, or four values.
<color>
<color>{1,4}where
<color> = <rgb()> | <rgba()> | <hsl()> | <hsla()> | <hex-color> | <named-color> | currentcolor | <deprecated-system-color>where
<rgb()> = rgb( <percentage>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgb( <number>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgb( <percentage>#{3} , <alpha-value>? ) | rgb( <number>#{3} , <alpha-value>? )
<rgba()> = rgba( <percentage>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgba( <number>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgba( <percentage>#{3} , <alpha-value>? ) | rgba( <number>#{3} , <alpha-value>? )
<hsl()> = hsl( <hue> <percentage> <percentage> [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | hsl( <hue>, <percentage>, <percentage>, <alpha-value>? )
<hsla()> = hsla( <hue> <percentage> <percentage> [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | hsla( <hue>, <percentage>, <percentage>, <alpha-value>? )where
<alpha-value> = <number> | <percentage>
<hue> = <number> | <angle>
<div id="justone"> <p><code>border-color: red;</code> is equivalent to</p> <ul><li><code>border-top-color: red;</code></li> <li><code>border-right-color: red;</code></li> <li><code>border-bottom-color: red;</code></li> <li><code>border-left-color: red;</code></li> </ul> </div> <div id="horzvert"> <p><code>border-color: gold red;</code> is equivalent to</p> <ul><li><code>border-top-color: gold;</code></li> <li><code>border-right-color: red;</code></li> <li><code>border-bottom-color: gold;</code></li> <li><code>border-left-color: red;</code></li> </ul> </div> <div id="topvertbott"> <p><code>border-color: red cyan gold;</code> is equivalent to</p> <ul><li><code>border-top-color: red;</code></li> <li><code>border-right-color: cyan;</code></li> <li><code>border-bottom-color: gold;</code></li> <li><code>border-left-color: cyan;</code></li> </ul> </div> <div id="trbl"> <p><code>border-color: red cyan black gold;</code> is equivalent to</p> <ul><li><code>border-top-color: red;</code></li> <li><code>border-right-color: cyan;</code></li> <li><code>border-bottom-color: black;</code></li> <li><code>border-left-color: gold;</code></li> </ul> </div>
#justone { border-color: red; } #horzvert { border-color: gold red; } #topvertbott { border-color: red cyan gold; } #trbl { border-color: red cyan black gold; } /* Set width and style for all divs */ div { border: solid 0.3em; width: auto; margin: 0.5em; padding: 0.5em; } ul { margin: 0; list-style: none; }
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 | Editor's Draft | Added the logical keyword. |
CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 The definition of 'border-color' in that specification. | Candidate Recommendation | The transparent keyword has been removed as it is now a part of the <color> data type. |
CSS Level 2 (Revision 1) The definition of 'border-color' in that specification. | Recommendation | The property is now a shorthand property. |
CSS Level 1 The definition of 'border-color' in that specification. | Recommendation | Initial definition. |
Initial value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
---|---|
Applies to | all elements. It also applies to ::first-letter . |
Inherited | no |
Media | visual |
Computed value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
Animation type | as each of the properties of the shorthand: |
Canonical order | the unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar |
Desktop | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | |
Basic support | 1 | 12 | 1
|
4 | 3.5 | 1 |
Mobile | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Android webview | Chrome for Android | Edge Mobile | Firefox for Android | Opera for Android | iOS Safari | Samsung Internet | |
Basic support | 4 | ? | Yes | 4
|
11 | 1 | ? |
border
, border-top-color
, border-right-color
, border-bottom-color
, border-left-color
,border-width
, border-style
<color>
data typecolor
, background-color
, outline-color
, text-decoration-color
, text-emphasis-color
, text-shadow
, caret-color
, and column-rule-color
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