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Utilities for controlling the offset of a text underline.

Quick reference

Class	Properties
underline-offset-auto	text-underline-offset: auto;
underline-offset-0	text-underline-offset: 0px;
underline-offset-1	text-underline-offset: 1px;
underline-offset-2	text-underline-offset: 2px;
underline-offset-4	text-underline-offset: 4px;
underline-offset-8	text-underline-offset: 8px;

Basic usage

Setting the underline offset

Use the underline-offset-* utilities to change the offset of a text underline.

underline-offset-1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

underline-offset-2

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

underline-offset-4

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

underline-offset-8

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

<p class="underline underline-offset-1 ...">The quick brown fox...</p>
<p class="underline underline-offset-2 ...">The quick brown fox...</p>
<p class="underline underline-offset-4 ...">The quick brown fox...</p>
<p class="underline underline-offset-8 ...">The quick brown fox...</p>

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Applying conditionally

Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:underline-offset-4 to only apply the underline-offset-4 utility on hover.

<p class="underline hover:underline-offset-4">
  <!-- ... -->
</p>

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:underline-offset-4 to apply the underline-offset-4 utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<p class="underline md:underline-offset-4">
  <!-- ... -->
</p>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

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Using custom values

Customizing your theme

You can customize the text-underline-offset utilities by editing theme.textUnderlineOffset or theme.extend.textUnderlineOffset in your tailwind.config.js file.

tailwind.config.js

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      textUnderlineOffset: {
        3: '3px',
      }
    }
  }
}

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

Arbitrary values

If you need to use a one-off text-underline-offset value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

<p class="underline-offset-[3px]">
  <!-- ... -->
</p>

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.