CSS - text-underline-offset Property

Quiz

The text-underline-offset property sets distance of an underline text decoration line from its initial position.

Possible Values

auto: The browser chooses the appropriate offset for underlines.
<length>: Any valid length with a specified unit (including negative values).
<percentage>:Specifies the offset of underlines as a percentage of 1em in the element's font.

Applies to

All the HTML elements except table row groups, rows, column groups, and columns.

DOM Syntax

object.style.UnderlineOffset =  auto ;

CSS text-underline-offset - Basic Example

Following is the example which demonstrates how to use text-underline-offset property:

<html>
<head>
<style>
    p {
        text-decoration: underline red;
    }
    .lineone {
        text-underline-offset: auto;
    }
    .linetwo{
        text-decoration-color: purple;
        text-decoration-line: underline overline;
        text-underline-offset: 1em;
    }
    .linethree {
        xt-underline-offset: 8px;
    }
    .linefour {
        text-underline-offset: -9px;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Text underline-offset</h2>
    <p class="lineone">Here is some text with a red underline!</p>
    <br />
    <p class="linetwo">
    This text has lines both above and below it. Only the bottom one is offset.
    </p>
    <br />
    <p class="linethree">
    This text has a red underline with offset 8px.
    </p>
    <br />

    <p class="linefour">
    This text has a red underline with offset -8px.
    </p>
</body>
</html>

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