The text-decoration-skip-ink CSS property specifies how overlines and underlines are drawn when they pass over glyph ascenders and descenders.

/* Single keyword */ text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-skip-ink: all;  /* Global keywords */ text-decoration-skip-ink: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: initial; text-decoration-skip-ink: revert; text-decoration-skip-ink: unset; 

text-decoration-skip-ink

The text-decoration-skip-ink CSS property specifies how overlines and underlines are drawn when they pass over glyph ascenders and descenders.

text-decoration-skip-ink is not part of the text-decoration shorthand.

Syntax

/* Single keyword */ text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-skip-ink: all;  /* Global keywords */ text-decoration-skip-ink: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: initial; text-decoration-skip-ink: revert; text-decoration-skip-ink: unset; 

Values

none

Underlines and overlines are drawn across the full length of the text content, including parts that cross over glyph descenders and ascenders.

auto

The default — the browser may interrupt underlines and overlines so that they do not touch or closely approach a glyph. That is, they are interrupted where they would otherwise cross over a glyph.

all

The browser must interrupt underlines and overlines so that they do not touch or closely approach a glyph. This can be helpful with certain Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) fonts, where the auto behavior might not create interruptions.

Formal definition

Initial value	auto
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	yes
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	discrete

Formal syntax

auto | all | none

Examples

HTML

<p>You should go on a quest for a cup of coffee.</p> <p class="no-skip-ink">Or maybe you'd prefer some tea?</p> <p>この文は、 text-decoration-skip-ink: auto の使用例を示しています。</p> <p class="skip-ink-all">この文は、 text-decoration-skip-ink: all の使用例を示しています。</p> 

CSS

p {   font-size: 1.5em;   text-decoration: underline blue;   text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; /* this is the default anyway */ }  .no-skip-ink {   text-decoration-skip-ink: none; }  .skip-ink-all{   text-decoration-skip-ink: all; } 

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Text Decoration Module Level 4 # text-decoration-skip-ink-property

See also

text-decoration text-decoration-skip

Last modified: Jan 19, 2022, by MDN contributors