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borderTopColor style property

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

Syntax:

object.borderTopColor;

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

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: border-top-color

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

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: this property has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

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

<head>
    <style>
        .example {
            border-top-color: blue;
            border-top-width: 4px;
            border-top-style: solid;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="example">Border-top-color: blue</div>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the borderTopColor 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.borderTopColor = selectState;
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="myDiv" style="border-top: 6px solid blue">Sample division with border-top</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>