{"id":200078,"date":"2015-04-11T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?page_id=200078"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:57:02","slug":"text-decoration-line","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/t\/text-decoration-line\/","title":{"rendered":"text-decoration-line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <code>text-decoration-line<\/code> property decorates text with an underline, overline, line-through, or a combination of those lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">p {\n  text-decoration-line: underline;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"values\">Values<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li><code>none<\/code>: no line is added, and any existing lines are removed \u2014 for example <code>none<\/code> removes the default underline on links.<\/li><li><code>underline<\/code>: adds a 1px underline below the text.<\/li><li><code>overline<\/code>: adds a 1px overline above the text.<\/li><li><code>line-through<\/code>: adds a 1px line through the text.<\/li><li><code>inherit<\/code>: inherits the decoration of the parent.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The value <code>blink<\/code> is in the W3C spec, but it is deprecated and will not work in any current browser. When it worked, it made the text appear to &#8220;blink&#8221; by rapidly toggling it between 0% and 100% opacity.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"combining-values\">Combining Values<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>You can combine the <code>underline<\/code>, <code>overline<\/code>, or <code>line-through<\/code> values in a space-separated list to add multiple decoration lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">p {\n  text-decoration-line: overline underline line-through;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"usage\">Usage<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>The <code>text-decoration-line<\/code> property is practically identical to the original <code><a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/t\/text-decoration\/\">text-decoration<\/a><\/code> property. If all you want to do is add a line or lines to your text, <code>text-decoration<\/code> is a better choice because it it supported by every browser, even very old ones. Generally, using a <code>text-decoration-line<\/code> declaration only makes sense when you&#8217;re writing a longhand style rule that includes <code><a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/t\/text-decoration-style\/\">text-decoration-style<\/a><\/code> or a <code><a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/t\/text-decoration-color\/\">text-decoration-color<\/a><\/code> declaration. If you want to use all three together, you can use the shorthand <code>text-decoration<\/code> property.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"shorthand\">Shorthand<\/h3>\n\n\n<p><code>text-decoration-line<\/code> can be used in combination with <code>text-decoration-style<\/code> and <code>text-decoration-color<\/code> in the shorthand CSS3 <code>text-decoration<\/code> property (currently only Firefox fully supports this):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">.underlined {\n  text-decoration: underline dotted red;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"demo\">Demo<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>This demo will work in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome with experimental web platform features enabled. The <code>blink<\/code> value is not included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-codepen-gutenberg-embed-block cp_embed_wrapper\"><iframe id=\"cp_embed_a16d2575c2a2d66d3af1711f8f958e14\" src=\"\/\/codepen.io\/anon\/embed\/a16d2575c2a2d66d3af1711f8f958e14?height=450&amp;theme-id=1&amp;slug-hash=a16d2575c2a2d66d3af1711f8f958e14&amp;default-tab=result\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allowpaymentrequest name=\"CodePen Embed a16d2575c2a2d66d3af1711f8f958e14\" title=\"CodePen Embed a16d2575c2a2d66d3af1711f8f958e14\" class=\"cp_embed_iframe\" style=\"width:100%;overflow:hidden\">CodePen Embed Fallback<\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"more-information\">More Information<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/css-text-decor-3\/#text-decoration-line-property\" rel=\"noopener\"><code>text-decoration-line<\/code> in the W3C spec<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/CSS\/text-decoration-line\" rel=\"noopener\"><code>text-decoration-line<\/code> at MDN<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"browser-support\">Browser Support<\/h3>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table browser-support-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Chrome<\/th><th>Safari<\/th><th>Firefox<\/th><th>Opera<\/th><th>IE<\/th><th>Android<\/th><th>iOS<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>31 * \u2020<\/td><td>7.1 *<\/td><td>6 \u2021<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>8 *<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* with <code>-webkit<\/code> prefix<br>\u2020 with experimental Web Platform features flag enabled<br>\u2021 6 &#8211; 35 with <code>-moz<\/code> prefix, unprefixed as of 36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text-decoration-line property decorates text with an underline, overline, line-through, or a combination of those lines. Values none: no line is added, and any existing lines are removed \u2014 for example none removes the default underline on links. underline: adds a 1px underline below the text. overline: adds a 1px overline above the text. line-through: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33562,"featured_media":0,"parent":13949,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-almanac-single.php","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14108,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/t\/text-decoration\/","url_meta":{"origin":200078,"position":0},"title":"text-decoration","date":"September 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The text-decoration property adds an underline, overline, line-through, or a combination of lines to selected text. h3 { text-decoration: underline; } Values none: no line is drawn, and any existing decoration is removed.underline: draws a 1px line across the text at its baseline.line-through: draws a 1px line across the text\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 15 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":312405,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/t\/text-decoration-thickness\/","url_meta":{"origin":200078,"position":1},"title":"text-decoration-thickness","date":"June 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The text-decoration-thickness property in CSS sets the stroke thickness of the decoration line that is used on text in an element. 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