CSS text-decoration underline color [duplicate]

You can do it if you wrap your text into a span like:

a {
  color: red;
  text-decoration: underline;
}
span {
  color: blue;
  text-decoration: none;
}

<a href="#">
  <span>Text</span>
</a>

(for fellow googlers, copied from duplicate question) This answer is outdated since text-decoration-color is now supported by most modern browsers.

You can do this via the following CSS rule as an example:

text-decoration-color:green

If this rule isn't supported by an older browser, you can use the following solution:

Setting your word with a border-bottom:

a:link {
  color: red;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-bottom: 1px solid blue;
}
a:hover {
 border-bottom-color: green;
}

As far as I know it's not possible... but you can try something like this:

.underline 
{
    color: blue;
    border-bottom: 1px solid red;
}

<div>
    <span class="underline">hello world</span>
</div>

You can't change the color of the line (you can't specify different foreground colors for the same element, and the text and its decoration form a single element). However there are some tricks:

a:link, a:visited {text-decoration: none; color: red; border-bottom: 1px solid #006699; }
a:hover, a:active {text-decoration: none; color: red; border-bottom: 1px solid #1177FF; }

Also you can make some cool effects this way:

a:link {text-decoration: none; color: red; border-bottom: 1px dashed #006699; }

Hope it helps.