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The caret-color property in CSS changes the color of the cursor (caret) in inputs, texareas, or really any element that is editable, like <div contenteditable>
.
input,
textarea,
[contenteditable] {
caret-color: red;
}
The color of the caret generally matches the color
of the text, but this property allows you to change those independently.
See the Pen caret-color by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.
See the Pen rainbowcaret by PINT, Inc. (@PINT) on CodePen.
Faking it
Before this existed there was a method for faking it involving forcing the text to be transparent (where supported via -webkit-text-fill-color
) and making the text show back up, colorized, via text-shadow
.
See the Pen Caret Color by ilwcss (@ilwcss) on CodePen.
Browser Support
This browser support data is from Caniuse, which has more detail. A number indicates that browser supports the feature at that version and up.
Desktop
Chrome | Firefox | IE | Edge | Safari |
---|---|---|---|---|
57 | 53 | No | 79 | 11.1 |
Mobile / Tablet
Android Chrome | Android Firefox | Android | iOS Safari |
---|---|---|---|
87 | 83 | 81 | 11.3-11.4 |