Intent to Prototype: CSS4 text-decoration-skip-spaces

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Contact emails

perry...@gmail.com

Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-4/#text-decoration-skip-spaces-property

Summary

The text-decoration-skip-spaces CSS property controls whether text decoration lines (underlines, overlines, line-throughs, etc.) skip over whitespace characters. This allows authors to prevent decorations from being drawn under spaces, which is often more visually appealing.

Blink component

Blink>CSS

Web Feature ID

text-decoration

Motivation

Currently there is no web standard way to control whether text decorations (underlines, overlines, line-throughs) appear over whitespace characters. Authors commonly want to suppress the underline under leading/trailing spaces in inline elements, but CSS provides no mechanism for this. The `text-decoration-skip-spaces` property fills this gap, allowing precise control over decoration rendering around whitespace. This is useful for navigation menus, links, and any text where the decoration should visually attach only to non-space characters.

Initial public proposal

No information provided

Goals for experimentation

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40862777

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/4832783806627840?gate=4671156134215680

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