text-decoration-style

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The text-decoration-style CSS property sets the style of the lines specified by text-decoration-line. The style applies to all lines that are set with text-decoration-line.

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If the specified decoration has a specific semantic meaning, like a line-through line meaning that some text has been deleted, authors are encouraged to denote this meaning using an HTML tag, like <del> or <s>. As browsers can disable styling in some cases, the semantic meaning won't disappear in such a situation.

When setting multiple line-decoration properties at once, it may be more convenient to use the text-decoration shorthand property instead.

Syntax

css
/* Keyword values */
text-decoration-style: solid;
text-decoration-style: double;
text-decoration-style: dotted;
text-decoration-style: dashed;
text-decoration-style: wavy;

/* Global values */
text-decoration-style: inherit;
text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-style: revert;
text-decoration-style: revert-layer;
text-decoration-style: unset;

Values

solid

Draws a single line.

double

Draws a double line.

dotted

Draws a dotted line.

dashed

Draws a dashed line.

wavy

Draws a wavy line.

-moz-none

Draws no line. Use text-decoration-line: none instead.

Formal definition

Initial valuesolid
Applies toall elements. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line.
Inheritedno
Computed valueas specified
Animation typediscrete

Formal syntax

text-decoration-style = 
solid |
double |
dotted |
dashed |
wavy

Examples

Setting a wavy underline

The following creates a red wavy underline:

CSS

css
.wavy {
  text-decoration-line: underline;
  text-decoration-style: wavy;
  text-decoration-color: red;
}

HTML

html
<p class="wavy">This text has a wavy red line beneath it.</p>

Results

Specifications

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

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
text-decoration-style
wavy

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Full support
Full support
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See also