SVG text-decoration Attribute

Last Updated : 31 Mar, 2022

The text-decoration attribute defines whether text is written with a strike-through, overline and/or underline. The main difference between CSS text-decoration property and SVG text-decoration attribute is that, SVG uses the ‘fill‘ and ‘stroke‘ values to paint the text decorations. It has effect only on the following elements <altGlyph>, <text>, <textPath>, <tref>, and <tspan>.

Syntax:

text-decoration = "text-decoration-line" | "text-decoration-style" 
                 | "text-decoration-color"

Attribute Values: The text-decoration attribute accepts the values mentioned above and described below

text-decoration-line: It sets the text-decoration, to line-through or underline.
text-decoration-style: It sets the style of the line used for the decoration, such as solid, wavy, or dashed.
text-decoration-color: It sets the color of the decoration.

Example 1: Below examples illustrate the use of text-decoration attribute.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<body> 
    <h1 style="color: green; font-size: 40px;"> 
        GeeksforGeeks 
    </h1> 
  
    <p> 
        Example for text-decoration="underline" 
    </p> 
  
    <svg viewBox="0 0 450 250" 
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 
          
        <text y="20" text-decoration="underline"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </text> 
    </svg> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Example 2:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<body> 
    <h1 style="color: green; font-size: 40px;"> 
        GeeksforGeeks 
    </h1> 
  
    <p> 
        Example for text-decoration="line-through" 
    </p> 
  
    <svg viewBox="0 0 450 250" 
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 
          
        <text x="0" y="40" 
            text-decoration="line-through"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </text> 
    </svg> 
</body> 
  
</html> 