text-decoration
The text-decoration
shorthand CSS property sets the appearance of decorative lines on text. It is a shorthand for text-decoration-line
, text-decoration-color
, text-decoration-style
, and the newer text-decoration-thickness
property.
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Text decorations are drawn across descendant text elements. This means that if an element specifies a text decoration, then a child element can't remove the decoration. For example, in the markup <p>This text has <em>some emphasized words</em> in it.</p>
, the style rule p { text-decoration: underline; }
would cause the entire paragraph to be underlined. The style rule em { text-decoration: none; }
would not cause any change; the entire paragraph would still be underlined. However, the rule em { text-decoration: overline; }
would cause a second decoration to appear on "some emphasized words".
Constituent properties
This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:
Syntax
css
text-decoration: underline;
text-decoration: overline red;
text-decoration: none;
/* Global values */
text-decoration: inherit;
text-decoration: initial;
text-decoration: revert;
text-decoration: revert-layer;
text-decoration: unset;
The text-decoration
property is specified as one or more space-separated values representing the various longhand text-decoration properties.
Values
text-decoration-line
-
Sets the kind of decoration used, such as
underline
orline-through
. text-decoration-color
-
Sets the color of the decoration.
text-decoration-style
-
Sets the style of the line used for the decoration, such as
solid
,wavy
, ordashed
. text-decoration-thickness
-
Sets the thickness of the line used for the decoration.
Formal definition
Initial value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
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Applies to | all elements. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line . |
Inherited | no |
Computed value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
Animation type | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
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Formal syntax
Examples
Demonstration of text-decoration values
css
.under {
text-decoration: underline red;
}
.over {
text-decoration: wavy overline lime;
}
.line {
text-decoration: line-through;
}
.plain {
text-decoration: none;
}
.underover {
text-decoration: dashed underline overline;
}
.thick {
text-decoration: solid underline purple 4px;
}
.blink {
text-decoration: blink;
}
html
<p class="under">This text has a line underneath it.</p>
<p class="over">This text has a line over it.</p>
<p class="line">This text has a line going through it.</p>
<p>
This <a class="plain" href="#">link will not be underlined</a>, as links
generally are by default. Be careful when removing the text decoration on
anchors since users often depend on the underline to denote hyperlinks.
</p>
<p class="underover">This text has lines above <em>and</em> below it.</p>
<p class="thick">
This text has a really thick purple underline in supporting browsers.
</p>
<p class="blink">
This text might blink for you, depending on the browser you use.
</p>
Result
Specifications
Specification |
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CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3 # text-decoration-property |
Browser compatibility
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See also
- The individual text-decoration properties are
text-decoration-line
,text-decoration-color
,text-decoration-style
, andtext-decoration-thickness
. - The
text-decoration-skip-ink
,text-underline-offset
, andtext-underline-position
properties also affect text-decoration, but are not included in the shorthand. - The
list-style
attribute controls the appearance of items in HTML<ol>
and<ul>
lists.