CSS Reference Property
text-decoration-color 4d1541
This property specifies the color of text decoration (underlines, overlines and line-throughs) set on the element with text-decoration-line. 3z3e4r
The default value for the text-decoration-color
property is currentColor
, which, as the name suggests, sets the color of the text decoration to the current color applied to the text using the color
property, which could be inherited if no specific value is set.
Official Syntax 55184y
- Syntax:
text-decoration-color: <color>
- Initial: currentColor
- Applies To: all elements
- Animatable: yes, as a <color>
Values 584j31
- <color>
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The color value accepts various keywords and numeric notations. See
<color>
values for more details.
Examples 3e5p5z
The following snippet sets an underline decoration (using the text-decoration-line
property) on all h1
elements in a page and colors the underline red.
h1 { text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-color: red; }
Other examples:
p { text-decoration-color: #eee; } .overlined-text { text-decoration-line: overline; text-decoration-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.25); }
Live Demo 2x4j2k
View this demo on the Codrops PlaygroundBrowser k5t66
The property is currently only ed in Firefox 6+, and it needs the -moz-
prefix.