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CSS text-decoration Property

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Description

The text-decoration CSS property specifies the decorations to be applied on the text content of an element such as underline, overline, etc.

The following table summarizes the usages context and the version history of this property.

Default value: none
Applies to: All elements
Inherited: No
Animatable: Yes, as some of the properties of the shorthand are animatable. See animatable properties.
Version: CSS 1, 2, 3

Syntax

The syntax of the property is given with:

text-decoration: 
none | [ underline | overline | line-through | blink ] one or more values | initial | inherit

The example below shows the text-decoration property in action.

a {
    text-decoration: none;
}
h1 {
    text-decoration: overline;
}

Property Values

The following table describes the values of this property.

Value Description
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 Makes the text blink (alternates between visible and invisible).
inherit If specified, the associated element takes the computed value of its parent element text-decoration property.

Browser Compatibility

The text-decoration property is supported in all major modern browsers.

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Basic Support—

  • Firefox 1+
  • Google Chrome 1+
  • Internet Explorer 3+
  • Apple Safari 1+
  • Opera 3.5+

Warning: The blink value of this property is only supported by Firefox and Opera. This value is deprecated in favor of animations, you should better avoid this value.


Further Reading

See tutorial on: CSS Text, CSS Border, CSS3 Animations.

Text-related properties: letter-spacing, text-align, text-indent, text-overflow, text-shadow, text-transform, white-space, word-spacing.

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