How to make text underlined in HTML

problem

You wish to make some text appear in underlined format. In this post we will see how to do that using HTML tags.

SOLUTION

We can use the Underline tag <u>. It has an opening and a closing tag for us to enclose the text we wish to make underlined. It works similarly to the bold and italic tags.

For example, make a line of text underlined:

underline.html

				
					<u>A line of text underlined.</u>

output

Nested example - Make a substring underlined

underline.html

				
					<p>
    Example of substring <u>underlined</u>
</p>

We can use the <u> tag as a nested tag. In the example above is nested inside a paragraph tag.

output

conclusion

In this post we saw how to use the underline tag and make some text underlined or a substring.

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