Reminder: Current Color in CSS

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Reminder to self, as I seem to keep forgetting this (even after having blogged about it 3 years ago): you can use currentColor as a color value in CSS. Be it for background-color, border-color, etc. — they all accept currentColor.

The value it represents is the current color, so if that one changes so will currentColor. Handy if you’re styling components based on the text color, as seen below:

cssconf-color3

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