text-underline-position

Important

This documentation is preliminary and subject to change.

Sets a value that indicates whether to render ellipses(...) to indicate text overflow.

Syntax

{ text-underline-position: iUnderlinePosition }

Possible values

iUnderlinePosition

String that specifies a value that indicates whether ellipses(...) display when text content has overflowed its given layout area.

auto	Display ellipses(...) for text overflow.
alphabetic	The underline is aligned to the alphabetic baseline.
under	The underline is aligned to the bottom edge of the em-box of the element.
over	The underline is aligned to the top edge of the em-box of the element.

Remarks

This property generally applies only to vertical writing documents, such as Japanese.

Standards information

This property is defined in CSS Selectors Level 3 .

Applies to

a, address, b, big, blockquote, body, button, caption, center, cite, code, col, colgroup, custom, dd, defaults, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, fieldset, form, hn, html, i, input type=button, input type=file, input type=password, input type=radio, input type=reset, input type=submit, input type=text, li, ol, p, s, select, span, sub, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, var, xmp

See also

Concepts

text-decoration

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