CSS color vs font-color

Question

Anyone know why CSS provides color for text  but does not have font-color or text-color   Seems very counter-intuitive  kind of like text-decoration  underline rather than font-style or something related to fonts   Does anyone know why how the W3C came up with such a wide array of CSS names like this

User · Accepted Answer

I would think that one reason could be that the color is applied to things other than font. For example:

div {
    border: 1px solid;
    color: red;
}

Yields both a red font color and a red border.

Alternatively, it could just be that the W3C's CSS standards are completely backwards and nonsensical as evidenced elsewhere.

User · Answer

The same way Boston came up with its street plan  They followed the cow paths already there  and built houses where the streets weren t  and after a while it was too much trouble to change

User · Answer

I know this is an old post but as MisterZimbu stated  the color property is defining the values of other properties  as the border-color and  with CSS3  of currentColor   currentColor is very handy if you want to use the font color for other elements  as the background or custom checkboxes and radios of inner elements for example    Example    x000D   x000D   element   x000D    color  green  x000D    background  red  x000D    display  block  x000D    width  200px  x000D    height  200px  x000D    padding  0  x000D    margin  0  x000D    x000D   x000D   innerElement1   x000D    border  solid 10px  x000D    display  inline-block  x000D    width  60px  x000D    height  100px  x000D    margin  10px  x000D    x000D   x000D   innerElement2   x000D    background  currentColor  x000D    display  inline-block  x000D    width  60px  x000D    height  100px  x000D    margin  10px  x000D    x000D   lt div class  element  gt  x000D     lt div class  innerElement1  gt  lt  div gt  x000D     lt div class  innerElement2  gt  lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

[css] CSS "color" vs. "font-color"

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