CSS3 Text Decorations

CSS3 Text Decoration specification provides new properties that implements new text decoration styling features such as lines, color and style. As the specification says: "CSS Levels 1 and 2 only defined very basic line decorations (underlines, overlines, and strike-throughs) appropriate to Western typographical traditions. Level 3 of this module adds the ability to change the color, style, position, [...]" This Chromestatus entry consists of the https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-2

Comments

Safari ships a prefixed version. For Edge, requested on Uservoice. This status entry applies to the line decorations subsection of the specification. Text-underline-position left, right and multiple value support is currently work in progress.

Documentation

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-decoration

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 57
• Chrome for Android release 57
• Chrome for iOS release 57
• Android WebView release 57
• Opera release 44
• Opera for Android release 44

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Shipped
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: Shipped
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• drott@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14