CSS | caret-color Property

Last Updated : 08 Aug, 2019

This property is used to set the color of the cursor in inputs, text area or other editable areas.

Syntax:

caret-color: auto|color;

Property values:

auto: It has a default value. It uses the current-color in the web browser.
color: It is used to specify the color value use for the caret. All values can be used (rgb, hex, named-color, etc).

Below examples illustrate the caret-color property in CSS:
Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>caret-color property</title>
        <style>
            body {
                text-align: center;
            }
            .geeks {
                caret-color: red;
            }
            .gfg {
                caret-color: transparent;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1 style="color:green;">GeeksForGeeks</h1>
        <h1>The caret-color Property</h1>
        <input value="geeksforgeeks"><br><br>
        <input class="geeks" value="C programming">
        <br><br>
        <input class="gfg" value="Java programming">
        <p contenteditable class="geeks">
         A computer science poertal for geeks
        </p>
    </body>
</html>

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by caret-color property are listed below:

Google chrome 57.0 and above
Internet Explorer: Not supported
Mozilla 53.0 and above
Opera 44.0 and above
Safari 11.1 and above

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