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Document: fgColor property

Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.

fgColor gets/sets the foreground color, or text color, of the current document.

Value

A string representing the color as a word (e.g., "red") or hexadecimal value (e.g., "#ff0000").

Examples

js

document.fgColor = "white";
document.bgColor = "darkblue";

Notes

The default value for this property in Mozilla Firefox is black (#000000 in hexadecimal).

document.fgColor is deprecated in DOM Level 2 HTML. The recommended alternative is the CSS property color (e.g., document.body.style.color = "red").

Another alternative is document.body.text, although this is deprecated in HTML 4.01 in favor of the CSS alternative above.

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
fgColor 64
1–64Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
 12 1 4 51
≤12.1–51Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
 11
1–11Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
 64
4.4–64Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
 64
18–64Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
 4 47
≤12.1–47Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
 11
1–11Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
 9.0
1.0–9.0Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/fgColor