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CSS Property: text-decoration

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The CSS (CSS1) text-decoration property indicates the ‘decoration’ (e.g. underlining) added to text. Note in CSS3 the text-decoration property is supposed to be a shorthand property covering text-decoration-line, text-decoration-color and text-decoration-style but at the time of writing this interpretation was not supported by major browsers.

 

Valid property values (other than inherit and initial) are:

 

Value

Description

line-through

Last line is aligned left

none

(default value). Normal text, without decoration

overline

Add line above text

underline

Add line below text

 

Default Value:

none

JavaScript syntax:

e.g. object.style.textDecoration="line-through"

Inherited:

No

Animatable:

No

 

EXAMPLE:


HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head>
<style>
div {width: 200px; background-color: yellow}
.x1 {text-decoration: overline;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
1. Element with default property<br><br>
<div><span>abcde</span></div><br><br>
2. Element set using in-file HTML style<br><br>
<div><span class="x1">abcde</span></div><br><br>
3. Element set using JavaScript<br><br>
<div><span id="x2">abcde</span></div>

<script>
document.getElementById("x2").style.textDecoration = "overline";
</script>

</body>
</html>

FUNCTION THAT MAY ASSIST IN TESTING WHETHER FEATURE IS SUPPORTED:
function isSupportedCSSPropertyTextDecoration() {
  var x = document.createElement("DIV"); x.style.textDecoration = "overline"; return (window.getComputedStyle(x, null).textDecoration == "overline");
}


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