Another idea is to drop that border-underlining
.underlinedText { display: inline; position: relative; top: 20px; right: 20px; color: red; text-decoration: underline; } em {font-style:normal; color: black;} <div class="underlinedText"><em>This should have a red underline.</em></div> Its a bit difficult to provide an idea without an URL, anyway. regards, Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/