text-decoration-skip-ink CSS property
Baseline
Widely available
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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2022.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The text-decoration-skip-ink CSS property specifies how overlines and underlines are drawn when they pass over glyph ascenders and descenders.
Try it
text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;
text-decoration-skip-ink: none;
<section id="default-example">
<p>
<span class="transition-all" id="example-element">parapsychologists</span>
</p>
</section>
p {
font:
1.9em "Georgia",
serif;
text-decoration: underline;
}
text-decoration-skip-ink is not part of the text-decoration shorthand.
Syntax
css
/* Single keyword */
text-decoration-skip-ink: none;
text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;
text-decoration-skip-ink: all;
/* Global keywords */
text-decoration-skip-ink: inherit;
text-decoration-skip-ink: initial;
text-decoration-skip-ink: revert;
text-decoration-skip-ink: revert-layer;
text-decoration-skip-ink: unset;
Values
none-
Underlines and overlines are drawn across the full length of the text content, including parts that cross over glyph descenders and ascenders.
auto-
The default — the browser may interrupt underlines and overlines so that they do not touch or closely approach a glyph. That is, they are interrupted where they would otherwise cross over a glyph.
all-
The browser must interrupt underlines and overlines so that they do not touch or closely approach a glyph. This can be helpful with certain Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) fonts, where the
autobehavior might not create interruptions.
Formal definition
| Initial value | auto |
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| Applies to | all elements |
| Inherited | yes |
| Computed value | as specified |
| Animation type | discrete |
Formal syntax
text-decoration-skip-ink =
auto |
none |
all
Examples
HTML
html
<p>You should go on a quest for a cup of coffee.</p>
<p class="no-skip-ink">Or maybe you'd prefer some tea?</p>
<p>この文は、 text-decoration-skip-ink: auto の使用例を示しています。</p>
<p class="skip-ink-all">
この文は、 text-decoration-skip-ink: all の使用例を示しています。
</p>
CSS
css
p {
font-size: 1.5em;
text-decoration: underline blue;
text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; /* this is the default anyway */
}
.no-skip-ink {
text-decoration-skip-ink: none;
}
.skip-ink-all {
text-decoration-skip-ink: all;
}
Result
Specifications
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| CSS Text Decoration Module Level 4 # text-decoration-skip-ink-property |
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Legend
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- Full support
- Full support
- In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
- In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
- No support
- No support