How to Change Link Underline Color

In this post, we will learn how to change the underline color of a line.

You can change the underline color of a line by using the text-decoration-color CSS property. This allows you to have one color for the underline of a line and another color for the text.

The color of an underline will by default be the same as the color of the text. In the past, when we've wanted to change the color of the underline, we've had to use border-bottom to simulate the underline.

However, now you can change the color of the underline directly by using the text-decoration-color CSS property.

Here's an example of how to change the underline color of a line:

	p {
    text-decoration: underline;
    text-decoration-color: blue;
}

Try it out for yourself below:

HTML
CSS

<p> This is a line with a blue underline. </p>
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p { text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: blue; }
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Text Decoration Styling

You can style text decorations further with the following CSS properties:

text-decoration-offset: Set the offset of the text decoration line.
text-decoration-style: Set the style of the text decoration line (dashed, dotted, double, wavy).
text-decoration-thickness: Set the thickness of the text decoration line.
text-decoration-skip-ink: Set whether the text decoration should skip over text or not.

Conclusion

We've seen how to change the underline color of a line and how to style text decorations using additional CSS properties.

Hopefully, this post has been helpful to you!

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