CSS text-decoration-skip Property

The text-decoration-skip property specifies the parts of an element’s content the text decoration should skip over.

It controls all text decoration lines drawn by the element and by its ancestors.

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

Initial Value	objects
Applies to	All elements.
Inherited	Yes.
Animatable	No.
Version	CSS3
DOM Syntax	object.style.textDecorationSkip = "spaces";

Syntax

text-decoration-skip: none | objects | spaces | leading spaces | trailing spaces | edges | box-decoration | initial | inherit;

Example of the text-decoration-skip property:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      p {
        margin: 1;
        color: #ccc;
        font-size: 2em;
        text-decoration: underline;
        text-decoration-skip: edges;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-decoration-style property example</h2>
    <p>
      <em>Lorem,</em>
      <em>ipsum is simply dummy text</em>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

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Result

Values

Value	Description
none	No skip will appear. Thus, text decoration is drawn for all text content.
objects	The entire margin box of the element is skipped if it is an image or inline-block.
spaces	All spacing is skipped.
leading spaces	Leading spaces are skipped (typographic character units, word separators, letter-spacing or word-spacing).
trailing spaces	Trailing spaces are skipped (typographic character units, word separators, letter-spacing or word-spacing).
edges	The start and end of the text decoration is inset slightly from the content edge of the decorating box.
box-decoration	The box’s margin, border, and padding areas are skipped.
ink	Glyphs or descenders are skipped.
initial	Sets the property to its default value.
inherit	Inherits the property from its parent element.

Browser support


✕	✕	12.1+ 8.0 -webkit-	✕

Practice Your Knowledge

What does the 'text-decoration-skip' property in CSS do?

It specifies whether to interrupt the decoration lines above or below the text.

It specifies whether and how a text-decoration line is drawn through the text itself.

It specifies what parts of the content-box of an element the decoration lines are drawn, it is mostly used to set the 'none', 'objects', 'spaces', 'ink', 'edges', 'box-decoration' and 'leading-spaces'.

It specifies how to break the line of text into lines.

It controls the offset of the shadow from the text.

It specifies whether and how the text-decoration-line is skip over the 'none', 'objects', 'spaces', 'ink', 'edges', 'box-decoration' and 'leading-spaces'.

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