`-webkit-text-stroke-color` CSS property

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

/* <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

This property is specified as one <color> value:

• <color>
  • : The color of the stroke.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

Examples

Varying the stroke color

HTML

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

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;
});

Results

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Introducing Text-Stroke on webkit.org (2006)
• CSS-Tricks article explaining this feature
• -webkit-text-fill-color
• -webkit-text-stroke-width
• -webkit-text-stroke