Change color of Chrome's calendar icon in HTML Date Input

I've managed to work around it for now using a CSS filter to invert the black color to white

::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator {
    filter: invert(1);
}

However this feels quite fragile and far from ideal.


You can actually get rather creative using the filter property.

  • invert(100%) turns the icon white
  • brightness(50%) makes it gray
  • sepia(100%) saturates it and makes it... sepia
  • saturate(10000%) pumps the saturation up and turns it bright red

After that you can play around with hue-rotate to change the hue. hue-rotate(240deg) turns it blue, hue-rotate(120deg) turns it green etc. If you want to get a really specific color you should check out this question on how to transform black into any given color using only CSS filters.


Another example is;

input[type="date"]::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator {
  cursor: pointer;
  border-radius: 4px;
  margin-right: 2px;
  opacity: 0.6;
  filter: invert(0.8);
}

input[type="date"]::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator:hover {
  opacity: 1
}