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

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

/* <color> */
text-emphasis-color: #555;
text-emphasis-color: blue;
text-emphasis-color: rgba(90, 200, 160, 0.8);
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 value	`currentcolor`
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	no
Computed value	computed color
Animation type	a color

Formal syntax

text-emphasis-color = 
  <color>  

<color> = 
  <absolute-color-base>  |
  currentcolor           |
  <system-color>         

<absolute-color-base> = 
  <hex-color>                |
  <absolute-color-function>  |
  <named-color>              |
  transparent                

<absolute-color-function> = 
  <rgb()>    |
  <rgba()>   |
  <hsl()>    |
  <hsla()>   |
  <hwb()>    |
  <lab()>    |
  <lch()>    |
  <oklab()>  |
  <oklch()>  |
  <color()>  

<rgb()> = 
  rgb( [ <percentage> | none ]{3} [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  |
  rgb( [ <number> | none ]{3} [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<hsl()> = 
  hsl( [ <hue> | none ] [ <percentage> | none ] [ <percentage> | none ] [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<hwb()> = 
  hwb( [ <hue> | none ] [ <percentage> | none ] [ <percentage> | none ] [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<lab()> = 
  lab( [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<lch()> = 
  lch( [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <hue> | none ] [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<oklab()> = 
  oklab( [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<oklch()> = 
  oklch( [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <percentage> | <number> | none ] [ <hue> | none ] [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<color()> = 
  color( <colorspace-params> [ / [ <alpha-value> | none ] ]? )  

<alpha-value> = 
  <number>      |
  <percentage>  

<hue> = 
  <number>  |
  <angle>   |
  none      

<colorspace-params> = 
  <predefined-rgb-params>  |
  <xyz-params>             

<predefined-rgb-params> = 
  <predefined-rgb> [ <number> | <percentage> | none ]{3}  

<xyz-params> = 
  <xyz-space> [ <number> | none ]{3}  

<predefined-rgb> = 
  srgb          |
  srgb-linear   |
  display-p3    |
  a98-rgb       |
  prophoto-rgb  |
  rec2020       

<xyz-space> = 
  xyz      |
  xyz-d50  |
  xyz-d65

Examples

Emphasis with a color and custom character

CSS

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

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

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