Text-Decoration

text-decoration Support Key: [*CSS1\|CSS2] [IE3B1\|N4B2\|O3.5*]	Other Text Properties
	word-spacing letter-spacing white-space word-wrap text-align	text-align-last text-transform text-shadow text-indent text-underline-position
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Quick Statistics
Default Value:	none
Applicable Elements:	All
Inherit From Parent:	No (see below)
Applicable Media:	Visual
HTML Equivalent:	<u> \| <s> \| <strike> \| <blink>

What is it?: This property describes the appearance characteristics of text that are not specified with the 'font-style' and 'font-weight' properties. The color of the text-decoration is taken from the 'color' property for the element. The characteristics of this property ARE used by child elements if the parent element is set to block. If this property is specified for an element/section containing no text (like the IMG element) or is empty, this property has no effect. Browsers may treat unknown values as underline.

Allowed Values
inherit
[CSS2] [N6|O7]: Type: Explicit; Description:
Explicitly sets the value of this property to that of the parent.
none
[CSS1|CSS2] [IE3B1|N4B3|O3.5]: Type: Explicit; Description:
This adds no decoration to the section.
underline
[CSS1|CSS2] [IE3B1|N4B2|O3.5]: Type: Explicit; Description:
The text in the section will be underlined.
overline
[CSS1|CSS2] [IE4B1|N6|O3.5]: Type: Explicit; Description:
The text in the section should have a line at the top of the text.
line-through
[CSS1|CSS2] [IE3B1|N4B2|O3.5]: Type: Explicit; Description:
The text in the section will have a line through the middle (strikethrough text.)
blink
[CSS1|CSS2] [N4B2|O4]: Type: Explicit; Description:
The text in the section blinks.

Example: Ext/Doc: strong { text-decoration: overline }; In-Line: <strong STYLE="text-decoration: overline">this is a test</strong>

Notes

CSS1 Conformance: Browsers may ignore the "blink" value and still be considered CSS1 conformant.
The CSS spec says that the default value for this property is "none", but the IE online reference makes a good point: the default value is element-dependent in HTML. For the most part, the default value IS "none", but for STRIKE, S and DEL, it is usually "line-through." For A HREF, U and INS the default is typically "underline."

Browser Peculiarities

Internet Explorer

3.0:
- Multiple, space-separated values are not understood. The entire property value is ignored.
3.0+:
- The effects of 'text-decoration' are not always used by child elements as they should be (they are ignored most of the time.) When they are honored (such as when a generic SPAN controlling text color is nested inside), the characteristics of the original decoration are not honored, rather the child element's style is used.
5.5+:
- Previous versions did not inherit the underline color from the 'color' property as it should. Beginning in this version it does.
Netscape

4.0 Beta 2:
- This version had a default 'text-decoration' value of 'underline' - which makes the values of 'none' and 'overline' into underlined passages. The correct behavior occurs in subsequent releases.
4.x:
- The effects of 'text-decoration' are not always used by child elements as they should be (they are ignored most of the time.) When they are honored (such as when a generic SPAN controlling text color is nested inside), the characteristics of the original decoration are not honored, rather the child element's style is used.
- Applying styles to hyperlink Pseudo-classes applies the styles to all hyperlinks.
Opera

3.5:
- The effects of 'text-decoration' are not always used by child elements as they should be (they are ignored most of the time.) When they are honored (such as when a generic SPAN controlling text color is nested inside), the characteristics of the original decoration are not honored, rather the child element's style is used.
- Applying styles to hyperlink Pseudo-classes applies the styles to all hyperlinks.
- Text decoration values of "none" and "underline" set for hyperlinks do not work as expected - User preferences for hyperlink underlining are used instead.