text-emphasis-style

The text-emphasis-style CSS property sets the appearance of emphasis marks. It can also be set, and reset, using the text-emphasis shorthand.

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Syntax

css
/* Initial value */
text-emphasis-style: none; /* No emphasis marks */

/* <string> values */
text-emphasis-style: "x";
text-emphasis-style: "\25B2";
text-emphasis-style: "*";

/* Keyword values */
text-emphasis-style: filled;
text-emphasis-style: open;
text-emphasis-style: dot;
text-emphasis-style: circle;
text-emphasis-style: double-circle;
text-emphasis-style: triangle;
text-emphasis-style: filled sesame;
text-emphasis-style: open sesame;

/* Global values */
text-emphasis-style: inherit;
text-emphasis-style: initial;
text-emphasis-style: revert;
text-emphasis-style: revert-layer;
text-emphasis-style: unset;

Values

none

No emphasis marks.

filled

The shape is filled with solid color. If neither filled nor open is 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).

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).

<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.

Formal definition

Initial valuenone
Applies toall elements
Inheritedyes
Computed valueas specified
Animation typediscrete

Formal syntax

text-emphasis-style = 
none |
[ [ filled | open ] || [ dot | circle | double-circle | triangle | sesame ] ] |
<string>

Examples

Basic example

css
h2 {
  -webkit-text-emphasis-style: sesame;
  text-emphasis-style: sesame;
}

Specifications

Specification
CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3
# text-emphasis-style-property

Browser compatibility

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See also