---
title: borderColor
framework: quartzcore
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: quartzcore/calayer/bordercolor
---

# borderColor

The color of the layer’s border. Animatable.

## Declaration

```swift
var borderColor: CGColor? { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The default value of this property is an opaque black color. The value of this property is retained using the Core Foundation retain/release semantics. This behavior occurs despite the fact that the property declaration appears to use the default assign semantics for object retention.

## See Also

### Modifying the layer’s appearance

- [contentsGravity](quartzcore/calayer/contentsgravity.md)
- [Contents Gravity Values](quartzcore/contents-gravity-values.md)
- [opacity](quartzcore/calayer/opacity.md)
- [isHidden](quartzcore/calayer/ishidden.md)
- [masksToBounds](quartzcore/calayer/maskstobounds.md)
- [mask](quartzcore/calayer/mask.md)
- [isDoubleSided](quartzcore/calayer/isdoublesided.md)
- [cornerRadius](quartzcore/calayer/cornerradius.md)
- [maskedCorners](quartzcore/calayer/maskedcorners.md)
- [CACornerMask](quartzcore/cacornermask.md)
- [borderWidth](quartzcore/calayer/borderwidth.md)
- [backgroundColor](quartzcore/calayer/backgroundcolor.md)
- [shadowOpacity](quartzcore/calayer/shadowopacity.md)
- [shadowRadius](quartzcore/calayer/shadowradius.md)
- [shadowOffset](quartzcore/calayer/shadowoffset.md)