CSS color Property

Tip: Use a background color combined with a text color that makes the text easy to read.

Default value:	not specified
Inherited:	yes
Animatable:	yes. Read about animatable Try it
Version:	CSS1
JavaScript syntax:	object.style.color=»#0000FF» Try it

Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

CSS Syntax

Property Values

Value	Description	Demo
color	Specifies the text color. Look at CSS Color Values for a complete list of possible color values.	Demo ❯
initial	Sets this property to its default value. Read about initial
inherit	Inherits this property from its parent element. Read about inherit

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Example

Set the text color with a HEX value:

Example

Set the text color with an RGB value:

Example

Set the text color with an RGBA value:

Example

Set the text color with a HSL value:

Example

Set the text color with a HSLA value:

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How to Change Text Color in HTML – Font Style Tutorial

Joel Olawanle

Text plays a significant role on our web pages. This is because it helps users learn what the web page is all about and what they can do there.

When you add text to your web pages, this text defaults to a black color. But sometimes you will want to change the text color to be more personalized.

For example, suppose you have a darker color as the background of your website. In that case, you’ll want to make the text color a lighter, brighter color to improve your website’s readability and accessibility.

In this article, you will learn how to change the color of your text in HTML. We’ll look at various methods, and we’ll discuss which method is best.

How to Change Text Color Before HTML5

Before the introduction of HTML5, you’d use to add text to websites. This tag takes the color attribute, which accepts the color as a name or hex code value:

 Welcome to freeCodeCamp. // Or Welcome to freeCodeCamp. 

This tag got depreciated when HTML5 was introduced. This makes sense because HTML is a markup language, not a styling language. When dealing with any type of styling, it is best to use CSS, which has the primary function of styling.

This means for you to add color to your web pages, you need to make use of CSS.

In case you are in a rush to see how you can change the color of your text, then here it is:

// Using inline CSS 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 // Using internal/external CSS selector

Suppose you are not in a rush. Let’s briefly dive right in.

How to Change Text Color in HTML

You can use the CSS color property to change the text color. This property accepts color values like Hex codes, RGB, HSL, or color names.

For example, if you want to change the text color to sky blue, you can make use of the name skyblue , the hex code #87CEEB , the RGB decimal code rgb(135,206,235) , or the HSL value hsl(197, 71%, 73%) .

There are three ways you can change the color of your text with CSS. These are using inline, internal, or external styling.

How to Change Text Color in HTML With Inline CSS

Inline CSS allows you to apply styles directly to your HTML elements. This means you are putting CSS into an HTML tag directly.

You can use the style attribute, which holds all the styles you wish to apply to this tag.

You will use the CSS color property alongside your preferred color value:

// Color Name Value 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 // Hex Value 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 // RGB Value 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 // HSL Value 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 

But inline styling isn’t the greatest option if your apps get bigger and more complex. So let’s look at what you can do instead.

How to Change Text Color in HTML With Internal or External CSS

Another preferred way to change the color of your text is to use either internal or external styling. These two are quite similar since both use a selector.

For internal styling, you do it within your HTML file’s tag. In the tag, you will add the tag and place all your CSS stylings there as seen below:

While for external styling, all you have to do is add the CSS styling to your CSS file using the general syntax:

The selector can either be your HTML tag or maybe a class or an ID . For example:

// HTML 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 // CSS p

// HTML 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 // CSS .my-paragraph

// HTML 
Welcome to freeCodeCamp!
 // CSS #my-paragraph

Note: As you have seen earlier, with inline CSS, you can use the color name, Hex code, RGB value, and HSL value with internal or external styling.

Wrapping Up

In this article, you have learned how to change an HTML element’s font/text color using CSS. You also learned how developers did it before the introduction of HTML5 with the tag and color attributes.

Also, keep in mind that styling your HTML elements with internal or external styling is always preferable to inline styling. This is because it provides more flexibility.

For example, instead of adding similar inline styles to all your

tag elements, you can use a single CSS class for all of them.

Inline styles are not considered best practices because they result in a lot of repetition — you cannot reuse the styles elsewhere. To learn more, you can read my article on Inline Style in HTML. You can also learn how to change text size in this article and background color in this article.

I hope this tutorial gives you the knowledge to change the color of your HTML text to make it look better.

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color

The color CSS property sets the foreground color value of an element’s text and text decorations, and sets the currentcolor value. currentcolor may be used as an indirect value on other properties and is the default for other color properties, such as border-color .

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For an overview of using color in HTML, see Applying color to HTML elements using CSS.

Syntax

/* Keyword values */ color: currentcolor; /* values */ color: red; color: orange; color: tan; color: rebeccapurple; /* values */ color: #090; color: #009900; color: #090a; color: #009900aa; /* values */ color: rgb(34, 12, 64, 0.6); color: rgba(34, 12, 64, 0.6); color: rgb(34 12 64 / 0.6); color: rgba(34 12 64 / 0.3); color: rgb(34 12 64 / 60%); color: rgba(34.6 12 64 / 30%); /* values */ color: hsl(30, 100%, 50%, 0.6); color: hsla(30, 100%, 50%, 0.6); color: hsl(30 100% 50% / 0.6); color: hsla(30 100% 50% / 0.6); color: hsl(30 100% 50% / 60%); color: hsla(30.2 100% 50% / 60%); /* values */ color: hwb(90 10% 10%); color: hwb(90 10% 10% / 0.5); color: hwb(90deg 10% 10%); color: hwb(1.5708rad 60% 0%); color: hwb(0.25turn 0% 40% / 50%); /* Global values */ color: inherit; color: initial; color: revert; color: revert-layer; color: unset; 

The color property is specified as a single value.

Note that the value must be a uniform color . It can’t be a , which is actually a type of .

Values

Sets the color of the textual and decorative parts of the element.

Sets the color to the element’s color property value. However, if set as the value of color , currentcolor is treated as inherit .

Accessibility concerns

It is important to ensure that the contrast ratio between the color of the text and the background the text is placed over is high enough that people experiencing low vision conditions will be able to read the content of the page.

Color contrast ratio is determined by comparing the luminosity of the text and background color values. In order to meet current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), a ratio of 4.5:1 is required for text content and 3:1 for larger text such as headings. Large text is defined as 18.66px and bold or larger, or 24px or larger.

Formal definition

Initial value	canvastext
Applies to	all elements and text. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line .
Inherited	yes
Computed value	computed color
Animation type	by computed value type

Formal syntax

Examples

Making text red

The following are all ways to make a paragraph’s text red:

p  color: red; > p  color: #f00; > p  color: #ff0000; > p  color: rgb(255, 0, 0); > p  color: rgb(100%, 0%, 0%); > p  color: hsl(0, 100%, 50%); > /* 50% translucent */ p  color: #ff000080; > p  color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5); > p  color: hsla(0, 100%, 50%, 0.5); > 

Specifications

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