Spring Into HTML and CSS

Text Decoration

You can “decorate” text with CSS—that is, apply or remove a particular decorative value. This is done using the text-decoration property, with values as follows:

• none— This is used primarily to remove the default underlines from links. See Chapter 10, “Link Effects, Lists, and Navigation.”

• underline— This places a line underneath the selected text. Usability specialists tend to shun underlined text because it can be confused with linked text.

• overline— This places a line above the selected text.

• line-through— This places a line through the selected text.

• blink— Yep, you read that right. This causes text to blink, a feature that was introduced (and used to the point of pain) by Netscape in the early days. It works in ...