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color

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The color attribute is used to provide a potential indirect value, currentColor, for the fill, stroke, stop-color, flood-color, and lighting-color attributes.

Note: As a presentation attribute, color also has a CSS property counterpart: color. When both are specified, the CSS property takes priority.

Technically, color can be applied to any element, but it has no direct effect on SVG elements.

Usage notes

Value <color> | inherit
Default value Depends on user agent
Animatable Yes

Example

<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <g color="green">
    <rect width="50" height="50" fill="currentColor" />
    <circle
      r="25"
      cx="70"
      cy="70"
      stroke="currentColor"
      fill="none"
      stroke-width="5" />
  </g>
</svg>

Specifications

Specification
CSS Color Module Level 4>
# the-color-property>
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2>
# ColorProperty>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
color 1 12 1 3.5 1 18 4 10.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Attribute/color