text-decoration property

Definition and Usage

The text-decoration CSS property is used to set the text formatting to underline, overline, line-through or blink.

Underline and overline decorations are positioned under the text, line-through over it.

Note: CSS Text Decoration Level 3 transformed this property as a shorthand for the three new text-decoration-color, text-decoration-line, and text-decoration-style CSS properties. Like for any other shorthand property, it means that it resets their value to their default if not explicitely set in the shorthand.

• Initialthe concatenation of the initial values of its longhand properties:
  • text-decoration-color: currentColor
  • text-decoration-style: solid
  • text-decoration-line: none
• Applies toall elements
• Inheritedno
• Mediavisual
• Computed Valueas each of the properties of the shorthand:
  • text-decoration-line: as specified
  • text-decoration-style: as specified
  • text-decoration-color: If the value is translucent, the computed value will be the rgba() corresponding one. If it isn’t, it will be the rgb() corresponding one. The transparent keyword maps to rgb(0,0,0).
• Animatableas each of the properties of the shorthand:
  • text-decoration-color: yes, as a color
  • text-decoration-style: no
  • text-decoration-line: no
• Canonical orderorder of appearance in the formal grammar of the values

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Syntax

Formal syntax: <'text-decoration-line'> || <'text-decoration-style'> || <'text-decoration-color'>

Values

Accepts one or more whitespace separated values:

none

Produces no text decoration.

underline

Each line of text is underlined.

overline

Each line of text has a line above it.

line-through

Each line of text has a line through the middle.

blink 

Is a keyword making the text slowlyblinks. Though valid, the effect is deprecated and the specification allows browser to ignore this value.

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Examples

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Compatibility

Desktop browsers

Mobile browsers