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An underline is a more or less horizontal line immediately below a portion of text. Generally, it is used to emphasize keywords or important passages. Not to be confused with "underscore", which is used for the character "_".

Underline in CSS

In CSS, underlining is created by setting the property "text-decoration" to "underline" (other line types, like strikethrough or overline, are also possible). The property "text-decoration-style" defines the appearance of the underline (e.g. solid, dotted, wavy). In CSS3, underline color can be defined by "text-decoration-color" to be different from the text color. For more information, see w3schools.com.

Underline in HTML

HTML has a presentational element <u> for underlined text. However, it was deprecated in HTML 4.01 in favor of CSS; in HTML5 it was redefined for text that should be "stylistically different" (cfr. w3schools.com).

Underline in Unicode

In Unicode, underline can be created by the combining diacritic "combining low line" (U+0332, "◌̲ ").

Underline in ASCII

In plain-text (ASCII) environments, underlining is often indicated by surrounding underscore characters, e.g. "This text is _underlined_."

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Remove blue underline from link

I am attempting to have a link show up in white, without an underline. The text color shows up correctly as white, but the blue underline is stubbornly persisting. I tried text-decoration: none; and text-decoration: none !important; in the CSS to…
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CSS Box Shadow Bottom Only

How can I do this? I want my element to look as though it has a shadow underline. I don't want the shadow for the other 3 sides.
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How to increase the gap between text and underlining in CSS

Using CSS, when text has text-decoration:underline applied, is it possible to increase the distance between the text and the underline?
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How to remove the underline for anchors(links)?

Is there anyway (in CSS) to avoid the underline for the text and links introduced in the page .. ?
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Get underlined text with Markdown

How can I underline text in Markdown?
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Flutter: how to make a TextField with HintText but no Underline?

This is what I'm trying to make: In the Flutter docs for Text Fields (https://flutter.io/text-input/) it says you can remove the underline by passing null to the decoration. However, that also gets rid of the hint text. I do not want any underline…
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How do you underline a text in Android XML?

How do you underline a text in an XML file? I can't find an option in textStyle.
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To draw an Underline below the TextView in Android

I want to draw the underline below my TextView. I have searched a few content but couldn't find out anything fruitful. Can anyone please help me out here?
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Visual Studio Editor does not underline errors anymore

My Visual Studio (2008) Editor has stopped to underline Errors (this nifty wavy red lines). I can't really tell when, but it can be related to the installation of .Net Framework 3.5 SP 1 or the MVC Beta (which I guess is unlikely). Furthermore have…
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How to Add a Dotted Underline Beneath HTML Text

How do you underline html text so that the line beneath the text is dotted rather than the standard underline? Preferably, I would like to do this without using a separate CSS file. I'm a novice at html.
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Remove underline from links in TextView - Android

I am using two textview to display links from database, I managed to change link colors but I want to remove the underline email.setText(c.getString(5)); website.setText(c.getString(6)); Linkify.addLinks(email, Linkify.ALL); …
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Underline text in UIlabel

How can I underline a text that could be multiple lines of string? I find some people suggest UIWebView, but it is obviously too heavy a class for just text rendering. My thoughts was to figure out the start point and length of each string in each…
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WPF TextBlock Underline

I have a textblock of width say 500, but my string is just say "H" but I want to underline the whole textblock width not just under H what can I do?
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Removing underline with href attribute

Possible Duplicate: How to remove the underline for anchors(links)? In the following code below, the link gets underlined when I use the href attribute. goto this link I want the link to be…
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Control underline position on text-decoration: underline

Is there a way to control the position of the underline in text-decoration: underline? Example link The example above has an underline by default...is there a way to nudge that underline down by a few pixels so that there is more…
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