text-emphasis-color

The text-emphasis-color CSS property sets the color of emphasis marks. This value can also be set using the text-emphasis shorthand.

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Syntax

css
/* Initial value */
text-emphasis-color: currentcolor;

/* <color> */
text-emphasis-color: #555;
text-emphasis-color: blue;
text-emphasis-color: rgb(90 200 160 / 80%);
text-emphasis-color: transparent;

/* Global values */
text-emphasis-color: inherit;
text-emphasis-color: initial;
text-emphasis-color: revert;
text-emphasis-color: revert-layer;
text-emphasis-color: unset;

Values

<color>

Defines the color of the emphasis marks. If no color is present, it defaults to currentcolor.

Formal definition

Initial valuecurrentcolor
Applies toall elements
Inheritedyes
Computed valuecomputed color
Animation typea color

Formal syntax

text-emphasis-color = 
  <color>

Examples

Emphasis with a color and custom character

CSS

css
em {
  text-emphasis-color: green;
  text-emphasis-style: "*";
}

HTML

html
<p>Here's an example:</p>

<em>This has emphasis marks!</em>

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3
# text-emphasis-color-property

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
text-emphasis-color

See also