The outline-color Property in CSS

CSS Web Development Front End Technology

The outline-color property can be defined to draw a line of specific color around the borders of the element, but the outline is not a part of element’s dimensions unlike border property.

Syntax

The syntax of CSS outline-color property is as follows −

Selector {
   outline-color: /*value*/
}

NOTE − The outline-style property needs to be defined before declaring outline-color.

Example

Let’s see an example for outline-color property −

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS outline-color</title>
<style>
span {
   margin: 15px;
   padding: 20px;
   border-style: solid;
   border-color: #f28500 #dc3545;
   position: absolute;
   outline-width: 5px;
   outline-style: double;
   outline-color: green;
   border-radius: 50%;
}
#showDiv {
   margin:auto;
   border-style: solid;
   border-color: darkmagenta dodgerblue;
   outline-style: groove;
   outline-color: black;
   height: 80px;
   width: 80px;
}
#container {
   width:50%;
   margin:50px auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="showDiv"><span></span></div>
</div></body></html>

Output

Following is the output for the above code −

Example

Let’s see another example for outline-style property −

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS outline-color</title>
<style>
#container {
   width:50%;
   margin:50px auto;
}
p {
   margin:auto;
   border-style: ridge;
   border-width: 10px;
   border-color: lightblue;
   outline-style: dashed;
   outline-width: 5px;
   outline-color: violet;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
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</div>
</body>
</html>