Use the current color in CSS with the currentcolor keyword

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Say you have a paragraph with the CSS of color: red; . If you would want to add a border in the same color you would just have to type border: 1px solid; . The border-color inherits from the paragraphs color property. How about using your element’s color value for other things than border-colors? A neat CSS keyword I didn’t know about makes this possible: currentcolor . Treat it as any other color keyword (like red, blue, green etc.) and wherever it’s used, the color of the color is used.

p {
   color: red;
}

p span{
   background: currentcolor;
}

Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera supports the keyword but alas, not IE9 yet.