The border-inline-start-color CSS property defines the color of the logical inline start border 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, border-right-color, border-bottom-color, or border-left-color property depending on the values defined for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation.

border-inline-start-color: red; border-inline-start-color: #ee4141;  /* Global values */ border-inline-start-color: inherit; border-inline-start-color: initial; border-inline-start-color: revert; border-inline-start-color: unset; 

border-inline-start-color

The border-inline-start-color CSS property defines the color of the logical inline start border 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, border-right-color, border-bottom-color, or border-left-color property depending on the values defined for writing-mode, direction, and text-orientation.

Syntax

border-inline-start-color: red; border-inline-start-color: #ee4141;  /* Global values */ border-inline-start-color: inherit; border-inline-start-color: initial; border-inline-start-color: revert; border-inline-start-color: unset; 

Related properties are border-block-start-color, border-block-end-color, and border-inline-end-color, which define the other border colors of the element.

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	a color

Formal syntax

<'border-top-color'>

Examples

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-inline-start-color: red; } 

Specifications

Specification
CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1 # border-color

See also

This property maps to one of the physical border properties: border-top-color, border-right-color, border-bottom-color, and border-left-color writing-mode, direction, text-orientation

Last modified: Aug 12, 2021, by MDN contributors

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