B.16. border-color

The border-color property sets the color of the border surrounding the selected element(s).

The colors for each side may be set individually using the border-bottom-color, border-left-color, border-right-color, and border-top-color properties.

Inherited: No

B.16.1. Value

You can specify from one to four different color values (see Table B-2) to specify different colors for each side of the element, as shown in Table B-2. Note that Netscape 4 supports only a single border color value.

Table B-2. Effects of multiple values on border properties
Number of valuesEffect on borders
1All four borders receive the value specified.
2Top and bottom (horizontal) borders receive the first value, left and right (vertical) borders receive ...

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