column-rule-color

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

Thecolumn-rule-colorCSS property sets the color of the line drawn between columns in a multi-column layout.

Try it

column-rule-color: red;

column-rule-color: rgb(48 125 222);

column-rule-color: hsl(120 80% 40% / 0.6);

column-rule-color: currentColor;

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#example-element {  columns: 3;  column-rule: solid;  text-align: left;}

Syntax

css

/* <color> values */column-rule-color: red;column-rule-color: rgb(192 56 78);column-rule-color: transparent;column-rule-color: hsl(0 100% 50% / 60%);/* Global values */column-rule-color: inherit;column-rule-color: initial;column-rule-color: revert;column-rule-color: revert-layer;column-rule-color: unset;

Thecolumn-rule-color property is specified as a single<color> value.

Values

<color>: The color of the rule that separates columns.

Formal definition

Initial value	`currentcolor`
Applies to	multicol elements
Inherited	no
Computed value	computed color
Animation type	acolor

Formal syntax

column-rule-color =
<line-color-list>|
<auto-line-color-list>

<line-color-list> =
<line-color-or-repeat>#

<auto-line-color-list> =
<line-color-or-repeat>#? ,<auto-repeat-line-color> ,<line-color-or-repeat>#?

<line-color-or-repeat> =
<color>|
<repeat-line-color>

<auto-repeat-line-color> =
repeat(auto ,[<color>]#)

<repeat-line-color> =
repeat([<integer [1,∞]>] ,[<color>]#)

<integer> =
<number-token>

Examples

Setting a blue column rule

HTML

html

<p>  This is a bunch of text split into three columns. The `column-rule-color`  property is used to change the color of the line that is drawn between  columns. Don't you think that's wonderful?</p>

CSS

css

p {  column-count: 3;  column-rule-style: solid;  column-rule-color: blue;}

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Multi-column Layout Module Level 1 # crc

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