CSS text-decoration-style Property

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Example

Set different types of text-decoration styles:

div.a {
text-decoration-line: underline;
text-decoration-style: solid;
}

div.b {
text-decoration-line: underline;
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}

div.c {
text-decoration-line: underline;
text-decoration-style: double;
}

div.d {
text-decoration-line: overline underline;
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}

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Definition and Usage

The text-decoration-style property sets the style of the text decoration (like solid, wavy, dotted, dashed, double).

Tip: Also look at the text-decoration property, which is a short-hand property for text-decoration-line, text-decoration-style, text-decoration-color, and text-decoration-thickness.

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Default value:	solid
Inherited:	no
Animatable:	no. Read about animatable
Version:	CSS3
JavaScript syntax:	object.style.textDecorationStyle="wavy" Try it

Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

Numbers followed by -moz- specify the first version that worked with a prefix.

Property
text-decoration-style	57.0	79.0	36.0 6.0 -moz-	12.1	44.0

CSS Syntax

Property Values

Value	Description	Play it
solid	Default value. The line will display as a single line	Demo ❯
double	The line will display as a double line	Demo ❯
dotted	The line will display as a dotted line	Demo ❯
dashed	The line will display as a dashed line	Demo ❯
wavy	The line will display as a wavy line	Demo ❯
initial	Sets this property to its default value. Read about initial
inherit	Inherits this property from its parent element. Read about inherit

CSS tutorial: CSS Text Decoration

HTML DOM reference: textDecorationStyle property