text-decoration
Quick Summary for 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.
Code Usage for text-decoration
text-decoration: underline; text-decoration: overline red; text-decoration: none;  /* Global values */ text-decoration: inherit; text-decoration: initial; text-decoration: revert; text-decoration: unset; 
More Details for text-decoration

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.

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:

text-decoration-color text-decoration-line text-decoration-style text-decoration-thickness

Syntax

text-decoration: underline; text-decoration: overline red; text-decoration: none;  /* Global values */ text-decoration: inherit; text-decoration: initial; text-decoration: revert; 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 or line-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, or dashed.

text-decoration-thickness

Sets the thickness of the line used for the decoration.

Formal definition

Initial valueas each of the properties of the shorthand:text-decoration-color: currentcolortext-decoration-style: solidtext-decoration-line: none
Applies toall elements. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line.
Inheritedno
Computed valueas each of the properties of the shorthand:text-decoration-line: as specifiedtext-decoration-style: as specifiedtext-decoration-color: computed colortext-decoration-thickness: as specified
Animation typeas each of the properties of the shorthand:text-decoration-color: a colortext-decoration-style: discretetext-decoration-line: discretetext-decoration-thickness: by computed value type

Formal syntax

<'text-decoration-line'> || <'text-decoration-style'> || <'text-decoration-color'> || <'text-decoration-thickness'>

Examples

Demonstration of text-decoration values

.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; } 
<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> 

Specifications

Specification
CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3 # text-decoration-property

See also

The individual text-decoration properties are text-decoration-line, text-decoration-color, text-decoration-style, and text-decoration-thickness. The text-decoration-skip-ink, text-underline-offset, and text-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. Select your preferred language English (US)DeutschEspañolFrançais日本語한국어Português (do Brasil)中文 (简体) Change language

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