---
title: border-inline-start-color
slug: Web/CSS/border-inline-start-color
tags:
  - CSS
  - CSS Logical Property
  - CSS Property
  - Reference
  - border-inline
  - border-inline-color
  - border-inline-start
  - border-inline-start-color
  - recipe:css-property
browser-compat: css.properties.border-inline-start-color
---
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The **`border-inline-start-color`** [CSS](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS) property defines the color of the logical inline start border of an element, which maps to a physical border color depending on the element's writing mode, directionality, and text orientation. It corresponds to the {{cssxref("border-top-color")}}, {{cssxref("border-right-color")}}, {{cssxref("border-bottom-color")}}, or {{cssxref("border-left-color")}} property depending on the values defined for {{cssxref("writing-mode")}}, {{cssxref("direction")}}, and {{cssxref("text-orientation")}}.

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## Syntax

```css
border-inline-start-color: red;
border-inline-start-color: #ee4141;

/* Global values */
border-inline-start-color: inherit;
border-inline-start-color: initial;
border-inline-start-color: revert;
border-inline-start-color: unset;
```

Related properties are {{cssxref("border-block-start-color")}}, {{cssxref("border-block-end-color")}}, and {{cssxref("border-inline-end-color")}}, which define the other border colors of the element.

### Values

- `<'color'>`
  - : The color of the border. See {{cssxref("color")}}.

## Formal definition

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## Formal syntax

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## Examples

### HTML

```html
<div>
  <p class="exampleText">Example text</p>
</div>
```

### CSS

```css
div {
  background-color: yellow;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
}

.exampleText {
  writing-mode: vertical-lr;
  border: 10px solid blue;
  border-inline-start-color: red;
}
```

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## Specifications

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## Browser compatibility

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## See also

- This property maps to one of the physical border properties: {{cssxref("border-top-color")}}, {{cssxref("border-right-color")}}, {{cssxref("border-bottom-color")}}, and {{cssxref("border-left-color")}}
- {{cssxref("writing-mode")}}, {{cssxref("direction")}}, {{cssxref("text-orientation")}}
