text-decoration-skip

The text-decoration-skip CSS property specifies what parts of the element’s content any text decoration affecting the element must skip over. It controls all text decoration lines drawn by the element and also any text decoration lines drawn by its ancestors.

/* Single keyword */
text-decoration-skip: none;
text-decoration-skip: objects;
text-decoration-skip: edges;
text-decoration-skip: box-decoration;
text-decoration-skip: spaces;

/* Multiple keywords */
text-decoration-skip: objects spaces;
text-decoration-skip: leading-spaces trailing-spaces;
text-decoration-skip: objects edges box-decoration;

/* Global keywords */
text-decoration-skip: inherit;
text-decoration-skip: initial;
text-decoration-skip: unset;

Note: The ink value was moved to the text-decoration-skip-ink property.

Syntax

Values

none

Nothing is skipped, i.e. text decoration is drawn for all text content and across atomic inline-level boxes.

objects

The entire margin box of the element is skipped if it is an atomic inline such as an image or inline-block.

spaces

All spacing is skipped, i.e. all Unicode white space characters and all word separators, plus any adjacent letter-spacing or word-spacing.

leading-spaces

The same as spaces, except that only leading spaces are skipped.

trailing-spaces

The same as spaces, except that only trailing spaces are skipped.

edges

The start and end of the text decoration is placed slightly inward (e.g. by half of the line thickness) from the content edge of the decorating box. E.g. two underlined elements side-by-side do not appear to have a single underline. (This is important in Chinese, where underlining is a form of punctuation.)

box-decoration

The text decoration is skipped over the box's margin, border and padding areas. This only has an effect on decorations imposed by an ancestor; a decorating box never draws over its own box decoration.

Formal Syntax

none | [ objects || [ spaces | [ leading-spaces || trailing-spaces ] ] || edges || box-decoration ]

Example

HTML content

<p><em>Hey,</em> <em>grab a cup of coffee!</em></p>

CSS content

p {
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 3em;
  text-decoration: underline;
  text-decoration-skip: edges;
}

Result

Specifications

Browser Compatibility