--- title: VS Code: Change Window Border Color | daily.dev description: VS Code now includes a window.border setting that allows users to customize the window border color on Windows systems. The feature supports various color... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5nezide25 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: VS Code: Change Window Border Color | daily.dev og:description: VS Code now includes a window.border setting that allows users to customize the window border color on Windows systems. The feature supports various color... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5nezide25 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5NEZiDE25.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # VS Code: Change Window Border Color **[Neutron Dev Guides](https://daily.dev/sources/neutrondevguides)** · [@neutrondev](https://daily.dev/neutrondev) · 11 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary VS Code now includes a window.border setting that allows users to customize the window border color on Windows systems. The feature supports various color formats including hex, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA, and named colors. The setting is application-scoped and cannot be configured per workspace or through settings.json files. The border color is not visible in fullscreen mode and defaults to white for invalid values. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/5nezide25) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/5nezide25","headline":"VS Code: Change Window Border Color","text":"Shared: VS Code: Change Window Border Color","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5nezide25","datePublished":"2025-08-30T14:34:28.339Z","dateModified":"2025-08-30T14:35:03.201Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Carol Pelu | NeutronDev.com","url":"https://daily.dev/neutrondev","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--w9qIvAbw--/f_auto/v1718735060/avatars/avatar_bzCYlsDizQmfAWGks5odV","description":"Software Engineer","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":240}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":11},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/AsYJ2XTSZ"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/neutrondevguides","name":"Neutron Dev Guides"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Neutron Dev Guides","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/neutrondevguides"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"VS Code: Change Window Border Color"}]} ```