border-color Attribute | borderColor Property

Sets or retrieves the border color of the object.

Syntax

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

Possible Values

sColor String that specifies or receives 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.
Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft� Internet Explorer 5. .

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.
As of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, this property applies to inline elements. With earlier versions of 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.
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.

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>
    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 src="sphere.jpg">
    </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
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'">

Standards Information

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

Applies To

A, ACRONYM, B, BDO, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, currentStyle, CUSTOM, DD, defaults, DEL, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, EMBED, FIELDSET, FONT, FORM, FRAME, 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, MARQUEE, MENU, NOBR, OBJECT, OL, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, Q, runtimeStyle, S, SAMP, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, style, SUB, SUP, TABLE, TD, TEXTAREA, TH, TT, U, UL, VAR, XMP

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border-color Attribute | borderColor Property