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color style property

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Specifies or returns the color of the element's text content.

Syntax:

object.color;

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

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: color

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

color

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

inherit

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

Default: this property has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the color property:

<head>
    <style>
        .example1 {
            color: #9AEECC;
        }
        .example2 {
            color: #CCEE55;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <h1 class="example1">text with color #9AEECC</h1>
    <h2 class="example2">text with color #CCEE55</h2>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

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

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function ChangeColor (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 anchor = document.getElementById ("myAnchor");
            anchor.style.color = selectState;
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <a id="myAnchor">Change the color of the text</a>

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