The border-color
shorthand CSS property sets the color 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 CSS colors.
This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:
/* <color> values */ border-color: red; /* top and bottom | left and right */ border-color: red #f015ca; /* top | left and right | bottom */ border-color: red rgb(240, 30, 50, 0.7) green; /* top | right | bottom | left */ border-color: red yellow green blue; /* Global values */ border-color: inherit; border-color: initial; border-color: revert; border-color: revert-layer; border-color: unset;
The border-color
property may be specified using one, two, three, or four values.
<color>
Defines the color of the border.
Initial value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
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Applies to | all elements. It also applies to ::first-letter . |
Inherited | no |
Computed value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
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Animation type | as each of the properties of the shorthand: |
<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 |
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CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 # logical-shorthand-keyword |
CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 # border-color |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
border-color |
1 | 12 | 1Firefox also supports the following non-standard CSS properties to set the border sides to multiple colors:-moz-border-top-colors , -moz-border-right-colors , -moz-border-bottom-colors , -moz-border-left-colors |
4 | 3.5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 4Firefox also supports the following non-standard CSS properties to set the border sides to multiple colors:-moz-border-top-colors , -moz-border-right-colors , -moz-border-bottom-colors , -moz-border-left-colors |
10.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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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