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+title: The currentColor CSS keyword
+type: tip
+tags: css,visual
+expertise: beginner
+author: chalarangelo
+cover: blog_images/picking-berries.jpg
+excerpt: The `currentColor` CSS keyword is a nifty alternative to custom properties for simple use cases.
+firstSeen: 2022-11-30T05:00:00-04:00
+---
+
+Modern CSS supports custom properties, yet the `currentColor` keyword precedes them by a few years. Thus, you might still find it in the wild and it is worth knowing what it does and how it works.
+
+```html
+<p>My <span>background</span> is the same color as my <a href="#">text</a>.</p>
+```
+
+```css
+p {
+  color: #101010;
+}
+
+p, p > * {
+  background-color: currentColor;
+}
+
+a {
+  color: #0077ff;
+}
+
+span {
+  color: #fd203a;
+}
+```
+
+`currentColor` contains the current value of the `color` property of the element. It is useful when you want to use the same color for multiple properties, such as `border-color` or `background-color`. It also respects the cascade, so if no value is provided for `color`, it will use the value of the `color` property of the parent element.