CSS border-color Property

Example

Set a color for the border:

div {border-color: coral;}

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.

If the border-color property has four values:

• border-color: red green blue pink;
  • top border is red
  • right border is green
  • bottom border is blue
  • left border is pink

If the border-color property has three values:

• border-color: red green blue;
  • top border is red
  • right and left borders are green
  • bottom border is blue

If the border-color property has two values:

• border-color: red green;
  • top and bottom borders are red
  • right and left borders are green

If the border-color property has one value:

• 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.
Version:	CSS1
JavaScript syntax:	object.style.borderColor="blue"

• Inherited : "Inherited = no" means that it cannot takes (inherit) it's value from it's parent element.
• object - object in javascript means the element on which border-color is applied.
• Animatable - "Animatable = yes" means that it can be animated with CSS @keyframes.

Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

Property
border-color	1.0	4.0	1.0	1.0	3.5

CSS Syntax

border-color: color|transparent|initial|inherit;

Property Values

Value	Description	Demo
color	Specifies the border color. Default color is the current color of the element
transparent	Specifies that the border color should be transparent
initial	Sets this property to its default value.
inherit	Inherits this property from its parent element.

More Examples

Example

Set a color for the border with a HEX value:

div {border-color: #92a8d1;}

Example

Set a color for the border with an RGB value:

div {border-color: rgb(201, 76, 76);}

Example

Set a color for the border with an RGBA value:

div {border-color: rgba(201, 76, 76, 0.3);}

Example

Set a color for the border with a HSL value:

div {border-color: hsl(89, 43%, 51%);}

Example

Set a color for the border with a HSLA value:

div {border-color: hsla(89, 43%, 51%, 0.3);}

Example

Set a different border-color for each side of an element:

div.ex1 {border-color: #0000ff;}
div.ex2 {border-color: #ff0000 #0000ff;}
div.ex3 {border-color: #ff0000 #00ff00 #0000ff;}
div.ex4 {border-color: #ff0000 #00ff00 #0000ff rgb(250,0,255);}