How to change the text color in JavaScript

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to change the text color of an html element using JavaScript.

Consider, we have following html markup:

<div id="container">
   <p>Hello this is some text</p>
</div>

Now, we want to change the text or font color of the content present inside the <div> element.

Changing the text color

To change the text color of a given element, first we need to access it inside the JavaScript by using the document.getElementId() or document.querySelector() methods and set its style.color property to your desired color.

Here is an example, that changes the text color to orange:

const div = document.getElementById("container");

div.style.color = "orange";