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.
| 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>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- | ✕ |