-webkit-text-stroke-color

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨April 2017⁩.

The -webkit-text-stroke-color CSS property specifies the stroke color of characters of text. If this property is not set, the value of the color property is used.

Syntax

css

/* <color> values */
-webkit-text-stroke-color: red;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: #e08ab4;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(200 100 0);

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

Values

<color>: The color of the stroke.

Formal definition

Initial value	`currentcolor`
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	yes
Computed value	computed color
Animation type	a color

Formal syntax

-webkit-text-stroke-color = 
  <color>

Examples

Varying the stroke color

HTML

html

<p>Text with stroke</p>
<input type="color" value="#ff0000" />

CSS

css

p {
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 4em;
  -webkit-text-stroke-width: 3px;
  -webkit-text-stroke-color: red; /* Can be changed in the live sample */
}

const colorPicker = document.querySelector("input");
colorPicker.addEventListener("change", (evt) => {
  document.querySelector("p").style.webkitTextStrokeColor = evt.target.value;
});

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Specifications

Specification
Compatibility # the-webkit-text-stroke-color

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