Selectively stopping text-decoration: underline on children of a link tag
css, html
Solution
Read this similar answer and its links for more information: Remove :hover on :after elemets
http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/ygXy6/4/
CSS:
a {
font-size: 32px;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover span {
text-decoration: underline;
}
HTML:
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk">
<div class="inner">I don't want this bit underlined on hover. What's the big deal?</div>
<span>This bit should be underlined on hover. Underlining here is fine. I have no objections to underlinining in this bit.</span>
</a>
Problem
Does anybody know if it's possible to prevent underlining on the child of an tag, while underlining the rest of the tag's contents? Here's an example - you can see this working on JSFiddle. I've tried everything I can think of, but the text underlining continues to be applied to all the text inside the link. I'm viewing on Chrome, but I'm sure this applies to all browsers. ``` a { font-size: 32px; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } a div { color: pink; } a:hover div, a:active div, a:focus div { text-decoration: none !important; } <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk"> <div class="inner">I don't want this bit underlined on hover. What's the big deal?</div> This bit should be underlined on hover. Underlining here is fine. I have no objections to underlinining in this bit. </a> ```