Re: [CSS3] [text-decor] text-decoration-line: none

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:57:45 -0800
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, "Gérard Talbot" <www-style@gtalbot.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3
> Section 2.1. Text Decoration Lines: the ‘text-decoration-line’ property
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-decor-3/#text-decoration-line-property
>
> states
>
> "
> Name:   text-decoration-line
> Value:  none | [ underline || overline || line-through || blink ]
>
> (...)
>
> ‘none’
>     Neither produces nor inhibits text decoration.
> "
>
>
> I do not understand the "nor inhibits text decoration" part. FYI, CSS 2.1
> was only stating:
>
> "
> none
>     Produces no text decoration.
> "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#decoration

If an ancestor has a text decoration that would apply to the element,
"none" doesn't wipe it out.  It simply doesn't create any new
decorations.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:58:39 UTC