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borderColor style property

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Specifies or returns the color of the element's border.

The order of the color values: top, right, bottom, left.

Syntax:

object.borderColor;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: border-color

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

•

Any of the following values (use the space character to separate them, each value can be used only 4 times):

•	<color>
•	transparent
•	-moz-use-text-color

•

inherit

Description of values:

-moz-use-text-color

The color of the border should be the same as the text color.

color

Color of the border. For the supported color values, see the colors page.

inherit

Takes the value of this property from the computed style of the parent element.

transparent

Default. Underlying content will shine through.

Default: transparent.

If only one color value is set, it is used for all four borders.
If two color values are specified, the first value is used for the top and bottom borders, the second one is for the left and right borders.
If three color values are set, the first value is used for the top border, the second one is for the left and right borders and the third one is for the bottom border.
If four color values are specified, the order is top, right, bottom, left (clockwise from top).

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the border-color property:

<head>
    <style>
        .example {
            border-color: blue;
            border-width: 1px;
            border-style: solid;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="example">Border-color: blue</div>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the borderColor property in JavaScript:

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function ChangeBorder (selectTag) {
            // Returns the index of the selected option
            var whichSelected = selectTag.selectedIndex;

            // Returns the text of the selected option
            var selectState = selectTag.options[whichSelected].text;

            var div = document.getElementById ("myDiv");
            div.style.borderColor = selectState;
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="myDiv" style="border: 1px solid blue">Sample division with border</div>

    <select onchange="ChangeBorder (this);" size="8">
        <option selected="selected" />blue
        <option />red
        <option />cyan
        <option />white
        <option />green
        <option />yellow
        <option />purple
        <option />black
    </select>
</body>