caret-color: transparent;
<section class="default-example container" id="default-example">
<div>
<p>Enter text in the field to see the caret:</p>
<p><input id="example-element" type="text" /></p>
</div>
</section>
#example-element {
font-size: 1.2rem;
}
Syntax
/* Keyword values */
caret-color: auto;
caret-color: transparent;
caret-color: currentColor;
/* <color> values */
caret-color: red;
caret-color: #5729e9;
caret-color: rgb(0 200 0);
caret-color: hsl(228deg 4% 24% / 80%);
/* Global values */
caret-color: inherit;
caret-color: initial;
caret-color: revert;
caret-color: revert-layer;
caret-color: unset;
Values
auto
Generally resolves to currentColor
, the color
of the text that will be modified.
<color>
The color of the caret.
An insertion caret is a visible indicator of the spot within editable text â or within an element that accepts text input â where content will be inserted (or deleted) by the user. The caret is typically a thin vertical line indicating where the addition or deletion of characters will occur. It generally blinks (flashes on and off), so it is more noticeable. The caret only appears when the editable element has focus. By default, this caret is the color of the text. The caret-color
property can be used to set the color of this caret to something other than the currentColor
, or to reset a colored caret back to its default.
The auto
value sets the insertion caret to currentColor
, which is the color
of the text that is being added or deleted. User agents may choose a different color to ensure good visibility and contrast with the surrounding content, taking into account the color
, background-color
, shadows, and other factors. In practice, however, all browsers use the current color by default, and when caret-color
is set to auto
. You can set any valid <color>
as the value.
The insertion caret, and therefore this property, only applies to text or elements that can accept text input. The caret appears in focused user interface elements where users can update content, such as <input>
elements that accept freeform text, the <textarea>
element, and elements with the contenteditable
attribute set.
The caret may appear in <input>
elements of type password
, text
, search
, tel
, and email
. No caret exists with date, color
, hidden
, radio
, or checkbox
input types. Some browsers display a caret with the number
input type. It is possible in some browsers to make a caret appear in elements that never have text content â for example, by setting appearance: none
and adding the contenteditable
attribute. However, this is not recommended.
A caret may be displayed in an editable element or its descendants, provided the editability is not disabled, for example by setting a descendant element's contentEditable
attribute to false
. If an element is not editable or selectable, for example if user-select
is set to none
, the caret should not appear.
There are multiple types of carets. The insertion caret is the only type affected by the caret-color
property.
Many browsers have a navigation caret, which acts similarly to an insertion caret but can be moved around in non-editable text.
The mouse cursor image shown for certain cursor
property values (for example, auto
or text
) may resemble a caret, but it's not. It's a cursor.
auto
Generally, when the caret-color
is set to or defaults to auto
, user agents use currentColor
, which is animatable. However, auto
is not an animatable value by default: when animating or transitioning the caret-color
from auto
to any color value, no interpolation happens. The animation is discrete; the color switches from or to the currentColor
color at the midpoint of the animation-duration
or transition-duration
.
caret-color =Examples Setting a custom caret color HTML
auto |
<color>
<input value="This field uses a default caret." size="64" />
<input class="custom" value="I have a custom caret color!" size="64" />
<p contenteditable class="custom">
This paragraph can be edited, and its caret has a custom color as well!
</p>
CSS
input {
caret-color: auto;
display: block;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}
input.custom {
caret-color: orange;
}
p.custom {
caret-color: green;
}
Result Specifications Browser compatibility
Loadingâ¦
See alsocaret-animation
, caret-shape
caret
shorthandcolor
text-emphasis
cursor
text-emphasis
<color>
data type<input>
elementcontenteditable
attributeRetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.5