Edit line thickness of CSS 'underline' attribute

Question

Since you can underline any text in CSS like so:

h4 {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

How can you also then edit the \'line\' that is drawn

Answer 1

Thanks to the magic of new css options this is now possible natively:

a {
  text-decoration: underline;
  text-decoration-thickness: 5px;
  text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;
  text-underline-offset: 3px;
}

As of yet support is relatively poor. But it'll land in other browsers than ff eventually.

Answer 2

Another way to do this is using ":after" (pseudo-element) on the element you want to underline.

h2{
  position:relative;
  display:inline-block;
  font-weight:700;
  font-family:arial,sans-serif;
  text-transform:uppercase;
  font-size:3em;
}
h2:after{
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  left:0;
  bottom:0;
  right:0;
  margin:auto;
  background:#000;
  height:1px;

}

Answer 3

I will do something simple like :

.thickness-underline {
    display: inline-block;
    text-decoration: none;
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
    margin-bottom: -1px;
}

• You can use line-height or padding-bottom to set possition between them
• You can use display: inline in some case

Demo : http://jsfiddle.net/5580pqe8/

Answer 4

a {
  text-decoration: none;
  position: relative;
}

a.underline {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

a.shadow {
   box-shadow: inset 0 -4px 0 white, inset 0 -4.5px 0 blue;
}

<h1><a href="#" class="underline">Default: some text alpha gamma<br>the quick brown fox</a></h1>
<p>Working:</p>
<h1><a href="#" class="shadow">Using Shadow: some text alpha gamma<br>the quick brown fox<br>even works with<br>multiple lines</a></h1>
<br>

Final Solution: http://codepen.io/vikrant-icd/pen/gwNqoM

a.shadow {
   box-shadow: inset 0 -4px 0 white, inset 0 -4.5px 0 blue;
}

Answer 5

My Solution : https://codepen.io/SOLESHOE/pen/QqJXYj

{
    display: inline-block;
    border-bottom: 1px solid;
    padding-bottom: 0;
    line-height: 70%;
}

You can adjust underline position with line-height value, underline thickness and style with border-bottom.

Beware to disable default underline behavior if you want to underline an href.