We talked about this during the API Owners call today and something that came up was this Issue 6 in the spec: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-4/#issue-4229bfce Is your plan to ship with 'none' as the default, or try 'end' to more closely align with the Firefox and Safari behavior noted in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4653? API Owners may be open to taking on some compatibility risk here if we think it'd mean shipping a better behavior, as long as we go into it with both eyes open and are ready to activate the kill-switch if there are issues.
And can you request signals on this from Gecko and Webkit? Are there developer signals we can point at to see that people need this feature? Thanks, Dan On Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 6:02:56 AM UTC-7 Chromestatus wrote: > *Contact emails* > [email protected] > > *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 > <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ECSS%22> > > *Web Feature ID* > text-decoration <https://webstatus.dev/features/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* > > *TAG review* > *No information provided* > > *TAG review status* > Not applicable > > *Goals for experimentation* > None > > *Risks* > > > *Interoperability and Compatibility* > Minimal risks; this feature is purely additive. > > *Gecko*: No signal > > *WebKit*: No signal > > *Web developers*: No signals > > *Other signals*: > > *WebView application risks* > > Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that > it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? > *No information provided* > > > *Debuggability* > *No information provided* > > *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, > Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?* > Yes > > *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests > <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?* > Yes > > https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-text-decor?sha=249e1eb8e6&label=master&max-count=1&view=subtest&q=css%2Fcss-text-decor%2Ftext-decoration-skip-spaces > > *Flag name on about://flags* > enable-experimental-web-platform-features > > *Finch feature name* > CSSTextDecorationSkipSpaces > > *Rollout plan* > Will ship enabled for all users > > *Requires code in //chrome?* > False > > *Tracking bug* > https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40862777 > > *Estimated milestones* > Shipping on desktop 154 > DevTrial on desktop 150 > Shipping on Android 154 > DevTrial on Android 150 > Shipping on WebView 154 > > *Anticipated spec changes* > > Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or > interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues > in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may > introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of > the API in a non-backward-compatible way). > *No information provided* > > *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status* > https://chromestatus.com/feature/4832783806627840?gate=6279878547734528 > > *Links to previous Intent discussions* > Intent to Prototype: > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/69d8f543.050a0220.1c79a0.1352.GAE%40google.com > > > This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status > <https://chromestatus.com>. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/ddbef6e2-67a2-4eaf-ad01-fb1c1ae212a3n%40chromium.org.
