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The border-color property

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The border-color property sets the color of the four borders. This property can take one to four colors.

Note: Always declare the border-style property before the border-color property. An element must have borders before you change the color of them.

Inherited: No

Example

table {border-color: red}
all four borders will be red

table {border-color: red green}
top and bottom border will be red, left an right border will be green 

table {border-color: red green blue}
top border will be red, left and right border will be green, bottom border will be blue

table {border-color: red green blue yellow}
top border will be red, right border will be green, bottom border  will be blue, left border will be yellow

Possible Values

Value Description NN IE
color The color value can be a color name (red), a rgb value (rgb(255,0,0)), or a hex number (#FF0000).  6.0 4.0
transparent The border is transparent    

Browser Notes

Note in IE 4.0-5.0:
  • This property does not work with inline elements

Note in IE 5.5 Beta 1:

  • This property works with inline elements
Note in Netscape 4.0+:
  • This property is not recognized. Use the "border" property to set the properties for the borders

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