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Glossary Term

text-decoration-skip-ink

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The text-decoration-skip-ink CSS property specifies how overlines and underlines are drawn when they pass over glyph ascenders and descenders.

text-decoration-skip-ink is not part of the text-decoration shorthand.

Values: This property is specified as one of the following keyword values:

Values: none Underlines and overlines are drawn across the full length of the text content, including parts that cross over glyph descenders and ascenders. auto The default — the browser may interrupt underlines and overlines so that they do not touch or closely approach a glyph. That is, they are interrupted where they would otherwise cross over a glyph. all The browser must interrupt underlines and overlines so that they do not touch or closely approach a glyph. This can be helpful with certain Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) fonts, where the auto behavior might not create interruptions.

Syntax example: text-decoration-skip-ink: none;

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