posts/current-color.md


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[[!meta title="CSS Value: currentColor"]]
[[!meta date="2019-04-13"]]

*There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of* CSS value types, but today we are going to focus on `currentColor`. So what is the `currentColor` value type anyway?

> The currentColor value type will apply the existing color value to other properties like background-color, etc.

## See it in action

Let's assume with have a single div with the following properties:


    div {
        color: dodgerblue;
    }


If we wanted to use that same color for other properties on elements inside that initial `div`, it's simple - we just need to call `currentColor` like so:


    div {
        color: dodgerblue;
    }
    
    div header {
        background-color: currentColor;
    }
    
    div a {
        border-bottom: 1px solid currentColor;
    }


**Sidenote**: If you re-declare the default `color` property further along in your CSS, the `currentColor` value will update according to the last color set.

And that's it. Best of all, this value type is supported across all major browsers!