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The border-block-color
CSS property defines the color of the logical block borders of an element, which maps to a physical border color depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation. It corresponds to the border-top-color
and border-bottom-color
, or border-right-color
and border-left-color
property depending on the values defined for writing-mode
, direction
, and text-orientation
.
border-block-color: yellow; border-block-color: #F5F6F7;
The border color in the other dimension can be set with border-inline-color
which sets border-inline-start-color
, and border-inline-end-color
.
Syntax
Values
<'color'>
- The color of the border. See
color
.
Formal definition
Initial value | currentcolor |
---|---|
Applies to | all elements |
Inherited | no |
Computed value | computed color |
Animation type | discrete |
Formal syntax
<'border-top-color'>{1,2}
Examples
Border with vertical text
HTML
<div> <p class="exampleText">Example text</p> </div>
CSS
div { background-color: yellow; width: 120px; height: 120px; } .exampleText { writing-mode: vertical-lr; border: 10px solid blue; border-block-color: red; }
Results
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 The definition of 'border-block-color' in that specification. |
Editor's Draft | Initial definition |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
border-block-color | Chrome
Full support
69
| Edge
Full support
79
| Firefox Full support 66 | IE No support No | Opera
Full support
56
| Safari No support No | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android
Full support
69
| Firefox Android Full support 66 | Opera Android
Full support
48
| Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
See also
- This property maps to the physical border properties:
border-top-color
,border-right-color
,border-bottom-color
, orborder-left-color
. writing-mode
,direction
,text-orientation
+ bug 1297097