On Chrome and Firefox, if I apply a text-decoration:underline on a tag, by default the underline does not apply to the pseudo element.
But on IE it does, and I can't remove it.
I want the link to be underlined, but not the pseudo element.
It work if I add a span inside and put the underline on it, but I want to know if it can be made without additional markup.
a{
padding-left: 9px;
position:relative;
display:inline-block;
}
a:before{
content:'\203A\00a0';
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:0;
display: inline-block;
}
#underline{
text-decoration: none;
}
#underline:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
}
/* special for IE */
#underline:hover:before
{
text-decoration:none !important; /* does nothing ! */
}
#color{
color:green;
}
#color:hover{
color:red;
}
#color:hover:before{
color:green; /* work ! */
}
#span{
text-decoration: none;
}
#span:hover span{
text-decoration: underline;
}
<a href="#" id="underline">underline</a>
<br>
<a href="#" id="color">color</a>
<br>
<a href="#" id="span"><span>with span</span></a>
It seems that IE don't let you override the text-decoration in the pseudoelement if it isn't set in it.
First let the pseudo-element be underlined - text-decoration: underline - and afterwards override this with textdecoration: none.
#underline:hover:before
{
text-decoration:underline;
}
#underline:hover:before
{
text-decoration:none;
}
As text-decoration: underline;
can't be overridden in IE you could use border-bottom: 1px solid green;
instead. This can then be overwritten on the :before
by setting its border colour to the background colour (in this case white). This will only work on solid colour backgrounds though.
a {
color: green;
display: inline-block;
padding-left: 9px;
position: relative;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:before {
content: '\203A\00a0';
display: inline-block;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
}
a:hover {
border-bottom: 1px solid green;
}
a:hover:before {
border-bottom: 1px solid white;
}
<a href="#" id="underline">Hover to check underline</a>
you can add this to your css. this helped me in the IE
a {text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
a:before,a:after { text-decoration:underline;}
a:before,a:after,
a:hover:before,a:hover:after {text-decoration:none;}