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Renders text with an underline.

HTML 3.2, 4, 4.01, 5

HTML Syntax

<u
   class = classname
   id = value
   style = css_style_rules
   title = text
>

NOTE: Both start and end tags are required.

The <u> element underlines the text it encloses, including gaps between words in the enclosed text.

The <u> element has no attribute of its own, but supports global attributes common to all HTML elements.

The following shows how the u element may be used.

<p>This text has <u>some underlined words</u>.</p>

which would render on a Web page as

This text has some underlined words.

• 4.5.22 The u element

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