CSS text-decoration-style Property

The text-decoration-style property specifies the style of the text decoration. Styles can be solid, dashed, dotted, double and wavy.

The text-decoration-style property is one of the CSS3 properties.

Initial Value solid
Applies to All elements. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line.
Inherited No.
Animatable No.
Version CSS3
DOM Syntax object.style.textDecorationStyle = "dotted";

Syntax

text-decoration-style: solid | double | dotted | dashed | wavy | initial | inherit;

Example of the text-decoration-style property:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        text-decoration-line: underline;
        text-decoration-style: solid;
        text-decoration-color: #1c87c9;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-decoration-style property example</h2>
    <div>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.</div>
  </body>
</html>

Result

CSS text-decoration-style wavy

Example of the text-decoration-style property with the "wavy" value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        text-decoration-line: underline;
        text-decoration-style: wavy;
        text-decoration-color: #1c87c9;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-decoration-style property example</h2>
    <div>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.</div>
  </body>
</html>

Example of the text-decoration-style property with the "dotted" value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        text-decoration-line: overline;
        text-decoration-style: dotted;
        text-decoration-color: #1c87c9;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-decoration-style property example</h2>
    <div>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.</div>
  </body>
</html>

Example of the text-decoration-style property with the "dashed" value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        text-decoration-line: overline;
        text-decoration-style: dashed;
        text-decoration-color: #1c87c9;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-decoration-style property example</h2>
    <div>
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Example of the text-decoration-style property with the "double" value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        text-decoration-line: overline underline;
        text-decoration-style: double;
        text-decoration-color: #1c87c9;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-decoration-style property example</h2>
    <div>
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Example of the text-decoration-style property with all the values:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div {
        margin: 20px 0;
      }
      div.t1 {
        text-decoration-line: overline underline;
        text-decoration-style: solid;
      }
      div.t2 {
        text-decoration-line: line-through;
        text-decoration-style: wavy;
      }
      div.t3 {
        text-decoration-line: overline underline;
        text-decoration-style: double;
      }
      div.t4 {
        text-decoration-line: overline;
        text-decoration-style: dashed;
      }
      div.t5 {
        text-decoration-line: line-through;
        text-decoration-style: dotted;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Text-decoration-style property example</h2>
    <div class="t1">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
    <div class="t2">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
    <div class="t3">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
    <div class="t4">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
    <div class="t5">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Values

Value Description Play it
solid Defines a single line. This is the default value of this property. Play it »
double Defines double line. Play it »
dotted Defines a dotted line. Play it »
dashed Defines a dashed line. Play it »
wavy Defines a wavy line. Play it »
initial Sets the property to its default value. Play it »
inherit Inherits the property from its parent element.

Browser support

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57.0+ 36.0+ 12.1+ 44.0+

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