CSS Reference Property
text-decoration-color 726a2b
This property specifies the color of text decoration (underlines, overlines and line-throughs) set on the element with text-decoration-line. 2o5m6n
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 4j1l4a
- Syntax:
text-decoration-color: <color>
- Initial: currentColor
- Applies To: all elements
- Animatable: yes, as a <color>
Values 4w6m73
- <color>
-
The color value accepts various keywords and numeric notations. See
<color>
values for more details.
Examples 3y6d6i
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 176n59
View this demo on the Codrops PlaygroundBrowser s162l
The property is currently only ed in Firefox 6+, and it needs the -moz-
prefix.