CSS color Property
The color property describes the color of the text content and text decorations. Background color can be combined with a text color to make the text easily readable. You can find web colors in our HTML colors section and try to choose your preferred colors with our Color Picker tool. The default value of this property varies from one browser to another.
| Initial Value | Varies from one browser to another. |
| Applies to | All elements. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line. |
| Inherited | Yes. |
| Animatable | Yes. The color is animated. |
| Version | CSS1 |
| DOM Syntax | object.style.color = "#1c87c9"; |
Syntax¶
color: color | initial | inherit;Example of the color property:¶
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.blue {
color: #1c87c9;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Color property example</h2>
<p>This is some paragraph for example.</p>
<p class="blue">This is some paragraph with blue color.</p>
<p>This is some paragraph for example.</p>
</body>
</html>You can set hexadecimal, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA, or color names as a value for the color property.
Example of the color property with a named color value: ¶
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.blue {
color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Color property example</h2>
<p>This is some paragraph for example.</p>
<p class="blue">This is some paragraph with a named blue color.</p>
<p>This is some paragraph for example.</p>
</body>
</html>Example of the color property with a hexadecimal value:¶
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.color {
color: #8ebf42;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Color property example.</h2>
<p>This is some paragraph for example</p>
<p class="color">This is some paragraph with a hexadecimal color value (#8ebf42 for green).</p>
<p>This is some paragraph for example.</p>
</body>
</html>Example of the color property with an RGB value: ¶
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.color {
color: rgb(142, 191, 66);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Color property example.</h2>
<p>This is some paragraph for example</p>
<p class="color">This is some paragraph with a RGB color value.</p>
<p>This is some paragraph for example.</p>
</body>
</html>Example of the color property with an HSL value: ¶
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.color {
color: hsl(89, 43%, 51%);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Color property example.</h2>
<p>This is some paragraph for example</p>
<p class="color">This is some paragraph with an HSL color value.</p>
<p>This is some paragraph for example.</p>
</body>
</html>Values¶
| Value | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| color | Describes the color of the text and text decorations. Color names, hexadecimal color codes, rgb(), rgba(), hsl(), hsla() can be used. | |
| initial | It makes the property use its default value. | |
| inherit | It inherits the property from its parent's element. |
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