text-emphasis
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2022.
The text-emphasis CSS property applies emphasis marks to text (except spaces and control characters). It is a shorthand for text-emphasis-style and text-emphasis-color.
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The text-emphasis property is quite different from text-decoration. The text-decoration property does not inherit, and the decoration specified is applied across the whole element. However, text-emphasis does inherit, which means it is possible to change emphasis marks for descendants.
The size of the emphasis symbol, like ruby symbols, is about 50% of the size of the font, and text-emphasis may affect line height when the current leading is not enough for the marks.
Note: text-emphasis doesn't reset the value of text-emphasis-position. This is because if the style and the color of emphasis marks may vary in a text, it is extremely unlikely that their position will. In the very rare cases when this is needed, use the property text-emphasis-position.
Constituent properties
This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:
Syntax
/* Initial value */
text-emphasis: none; /* No emphasis marks */
/* <string> value */
text-emphasis: "x";
text-emphasis: "点";
text-emphasis: "\25B2";
text-emphasis: "*" #555;
text-emphasis: "foo"; /* Should NOT use. It may be computed to or rendered as 'f' only */
/* Keywords value */
text-emphasis: filled;
text-emphasis: open;
text-emphasis: filled sesame;
text-emphasis: open sesame;
/* Keywords value combined with a color */
text-emphasis: filled sesame #555;
/* Global values */
text-emphasis: inherit;
text-emphasis: initial;
text-emphasis: revert;
text-emphasis: revert-layer;
text-emphasis: unset;
Values
none-
No emphasis marks.
filled-
The shape is filled with solid color. If neither
fillednoropenis present, this is the default. open-
The shape is hollow.
dot-
Display small circles as marks. The filled dot is
'•'(U+2022), and the open dot is'◦'(U+25E6). circle-
Display large circles as marks. The filled circle is
'●'(U+25CF), and the open circle is'○'(U+25CB). This is the default shape in horizontal writing modes when no other shape is given. double-circle-
Display double circles as marks. The filled double-circle is
'◉'(U+25C9), and the open double-circle is'◎'(U+25CE). triangle-
Display triangles as marks. The filled triangle is
'▲'(U+25B2), and the open triangle is'△'(U+25B3). sesame-
Display sesames as marks. The filled sesame is
'﹅'(U+FE45), and the open sesame is'﹆'(U+FE46). This is the default shape in vertical writing modes when no other shape is given. <string>-
Display the given string as marks. Authors should not specify more than one character in
<string>. The UA may truncate or ignore strings consisting of more than one grapheme cluster. <color>-
Defines the color of the mark. If no color is present, it defaults to
currentcolor.
Formal definition
| Initial value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
|---|---|
| Applies to | all elements |
| Inherited | yes |
| Computed value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
| Animation type | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
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Formal syntax
Examples
A heading with emphasis shape and color
This example draws a heading with triangles used to emphasize each character.
CSS
h2 {
text-emphasis: triangle #d55;
}
HTML
<h2>This is important!</h2>
Result
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3 # text-emphasis-property |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
- The longhand properties
text-emphasis-style,text-emphasis-color. - The
text-emphasis-positionproperty allowing to define the position of the emphasis marks.