text decoration and inheritence by audetwebdesign August 29, 2013 HTML <table> <tr> <td class="u">After <em class="no-u">My Text</em> is an <span>inline-block of text that is not affected.</span> You can also add a second decoraton to <b>an inline child</b>.</td> </tr> </table> CSS .u { text-decoration: underline; padding: 20px 0; border: 1px dotted blue; } .no-u { text-decoration: underline; display: inline; } .u span { text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; } .u b { text-decoration: overline; }