borderColor Property (A, ABBR, ACRONYM, ...)

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border-color Attribute | borderColor Property

Gets or sets the border color of the object.

Syntax

CSS { border-color : sColor }
Scripting [ sColor = ] object.style.borderColor

Possible Values

sColor String that specifies or receives one or more of the following space-delimited values:
transparent
Border is transparent.
color
Up to four color names or RGB values in the Color Table.

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: currentStyle. The property has no default value. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attribute is not inherited.

DHTML expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s). As of Internet Explorer 8, expressions are supported in IE7 Standards mode and IE5 (Quirks) mode only. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties and Defining Document Compatibility.

Remarks

Up to four different colors can be specified in the following order: top, right, bottom, left. If one color is supplied, it is used for all four sides. If two colors are supplied, the first is used for the top and bottom, and the second is used for left and right. If three colors are supplied, they are used for top, right and left, and bottom, respectively.

The borderColor property does not render if the borderStyle property is set to none.

Some browsers do not recognize color names, but all browsers should recognize RGB color values and display them correctly.

As of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, this property applies to inline elements. With earlier versions of Windows Internet Explorer, inline elements must have an absolute  position or layout to use this property. Element layout is set by providing a value for the height property or the width property.

Examples

The following examples use the border-color attribute and the borderColor property to specify the border color.

This example uses a call to an embedded (global) style sheet to change the color of the border to blue from an initial value of red when the mouse moves over the image.


<head>
<style type="text/css">
TD {
    border-color: red;
    border-width: 0.5cm;
}
.blue {
    border-color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<table border="">
    <tr>
        <td onmouseover="this.className='blue'" onmouseout="this.className=''">
        <img alt="sphere" src="sphere.jpg"> </td>
    </tr>
</table>

</body>

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/border-color.htm

This example uses inline scripting to change the color of the border to blue when the mouse moves over the image.


<td onmouseover="this.style.borderWidth='0.5cm';
                 this.style.borderColor='blue';
                 this.style.borderStyle='solid'">

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/borderColor.htm

This example uses embedded styles to change the border from a value of transparent to a value of gold. This will only work correctly in Internet Explorer 7 and later.


<head>
<style type="text/css">
a:link, a:visited {
    border-style: solid; 
    border-width: 10px;
    border-color: transparent;
}
a:hover {
    border-style: ridge;
    border-width: 10px;
    border-color: gold;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
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Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/border-color0.htm

Standards Information

This property is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 1 (CSS1).

Applies To

A, ABBR, ACRONYM, ARTICLE, ASIDE, B, BDO, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, CSSStyleDeclaration, currentStyle, CUSTOM, DD, defaults, DEL, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, EMBED, FIELDSET, FIGCAPTION, FIGURE, FONT, FOOTER, FORM, FRAME, HEADER, HGROUP, hn, HR, I, IFRAME, IMG, INPUT type=button, INPUT type=checkbox, INPUT type=file, INPUT type=image, INPUT type=password, INPUT type=radio, INPUT type=reset, INPUT type=submit, INPUT type=text, INS, ISINDEX, KBD, LABEL, LI, LISTING, MARK, MARQUEE, MENU, NAV, NOBR, OBJECT, OL, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, Q, runtimeStyle, S, SAMP, SECTION, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, style, SUB, SUP, TABLE, TD, TEXTAREA, TH, TT, U, UL, VAR, XMP, CSSCurrentStyleDeclaration Constructor, CSSRuleStyleDeclaration Constructor, CSSStyleDeclaration Constructor, HTMLFrameElement Constructor, HTMLFrameSetElement Constructor, HTMLTableCellElement Constructor, HTMLTableElement Constructor, HTMLTableRowElement Constructor

See Also

border