[csswg-drafts] [css-text-decor] text-decoration level 4 clarification on text-underline-offset positive/negative lengths (#4021)

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== [css-text-decor] text-decoration level 4 clarification on text-underline-offset positive/negative lengths ==
For `text-underline-offset` at [https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-4/#underline-offset](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-4/#underline-offset), it says that "Positive lengths represent inward distances; negative lengths outward". This seems to suggest that a positive length would move the underline up, intersecting with the text that it is underlining and eventually sitting "above" the text like an overline. A negative length, however, would travel "down" the page. Is this the correct way to interpret that section of the spec? 

In [Safari Technology Preview 70](https://webkit.org/blog/8496/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-70/), `text-underline-offset` has been implemented, but positive values move the text downwards on the page away from the underlined text. Negative values have the same effect as setting `text-underline-offset` to 0.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4021 using your GitHub account

Received on Friday, 7 June 2019 21:25:27 UTC