CSS text decoration

CSS text-decoration is used to define the decoration of text. This property is a shorthand property by which we can define all the decorations of text in just a single setting. These decorations are CSS decoration color, CSS decoration line, and CSS decoration style.

Syntax

Example
let’s take the example of a paragraph contains some text to underline. CSS text decoration will make this content underlined as you can find in the example given below.

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Output

This is an underlined text.

CSS text decoration values list

The values and description of this property is used for defining decoration of text.

Sr. No. value Description
1 none Used to define the no decoration of the text. The value for this is none.
2 underline Used to make the text underline. The value for this is underline.
3 overline Used to make the text appear line over it. The value for this is overline.
4 line-through Used to make the text to appear like deleted text. The value for this is line-through.
5 initial Used to define as the property initial value.
6 inherit Used to define the computed value of property on the elements parent.
7 unset Used to define the property either acts as inherit or initial, depending on the property if it is inherited or not.

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