Introduce the "font-color" css property.

The Issue

At this moment we, web developers, have following css properties available:

  • "background-color" property which only affects the color of the background
  • "border-color" property which only affects the color of the border
  • "outline-color" property which only affects the color of the outline

All of which are intuitive and trivial to remember.
However, there is no "font-color" property that would only affect the color of the font.
Instead, we are forced to remember about a pointless exception, that to change font's color you only write "color".

Please, introduce a "font-color" property, consistent with other similar properties.

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The Issue

At this moment we, web developers, have following css properties available:

  • "background-color" property which only affects the color of the background
  • "border-color" property which only affects the color of the border
  • "outline-color" property which only affects the color of the outline

All of which are intuitive and trivial to remember.
However, there is no "font-color" property that would only affect the color of the font.
Instead, we are forced to remember about a pointless exception, that to change font's color you only write "color".

Please, introduce a "font-color" property, consistent with other similar properties.

The Decision Makers

World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium

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Petition created on March 9, 2016