text-emphasis-color

The text-emphasis-color CSS property sets the color of emphasis marks. This value can also be set using the text-emphasis shorthand.

/* Initial value */
text-emphasis-color: currentcolor;

/* <color> */
text-emphasis-color: #555;
text-emphasis-color: blue;
text-emphasis-color: rgba(90, 200, 160, 0.8);
text-emphasis-color: transparent;

/* Global values */
text-emphasis-color: inherit;
text-emphasis-color: initial;
text-emphasis-color: unset;

Syntax

Values

<color>

Defines the color of the emphasis marks. If no color is present, it defaults to currentcolor.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

<color>
where 
<color> = <rgb()> | <rgba()> | <hsl()> | <hsla()> | <hex-color> | <named-color> | currentcolor | <deprecated-system-color>
where 
<rgb()> = rgb( <percentage>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgb( <number>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgb( <percentage>#{3} , <alpha-value>? ) | rgb( <number>#{3} , <alpha-value>? )
<rgba()> = rgba( <percentage>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgba( <number>{3} [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | rgba( <percentage>#{3} , <alpha-value>? ) | rgba( <number>#{3} , <alpha-value>? )
<hsl()> = hsl( <hue> <percentage> <percentage> [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | hsl( <hue>, <percentage>, <percentage>, <alpha-value>? )
<hsla()> = hsla( <hue> <percentage> <percentage> [ / <alpha-value> ]? ) | hsla( <hue>, <percentage>, <percentage>, <alpha-value>? )
where 
<alpha-value> = <number> | <percentage>
<hue> = <number> | <angle>

Examples

Emphasis with a color and custom character

CSS

em {
  text-emphasis-color: green;
  text-emphasis-style: "*";
}

HTML

<p>Here's an example:</p>

<em>This has emphasis marks!</em>

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• The <color> data type
• The other emphasis mark related properties: text-emphasis-style, text-emphasis, and text-emphasis-position.
• Other color-related properties: color, background-color, border-color, outline-color, text-emphasis-color, text-shadow, caret-color, and column-rule-color
• Applying color to HTML elements using CSS