text-emphasis-style

The text-emphasis-style CSS property sets the appearance of emphasis marks. It can also be set, and reset, using the text-emphasis shorthand.

Try it

text-emphasis-style: none;

text-emphasis-style: triangle;

text-emphasis-style: "x";

text-emphasis-style: filled double-circle;

<section id="default-example">
 <p>
 I'd far rather be
 <span class="transition-all" id="example-element">happy than right</span>
 any day.
 </p>
</section>

p {
 font: 1.5em sans-serif;
}

Syntax

/* Initial value */
text-emphasis-style: none; /* No emphasis marks */
/* <string> values */
text-emphasis-style: "x";
text-emphasis-style: "25円B2";
text-emphasis-style: "*";
/* Keyword values */
text-emphasis-style: filled;
text-emphasis-style: open;
text-emphasis-style: dot;
text-emphasis-style: circle;
text-emphasis-style: double-circle;
text-emphasis-style: triangle;
text-emphasis-style: filled sesame;
text-emphasis-style: open sesame;
/* Global values */
text-emphasis-style: inherit;
text-emphasis-style: initial;
text-emphasis-style: revert;
text-emphasis-style: revert-layer;
text-emphasis-style: unset;

Values

none

No emphasis marks.

filled

The shape is filled with solid color. If neither filled nor open is present, this is the default.

open

The shape is hollow.

dot

Display small circles as marks. The filled dot is '•' (U+2022), and the open dot is '◦' (U+25E6).

circle

Display large circles as marks. The filled circle is '●くろまる' (U+25CF), and the open circle is '○しろまる' (U+25CB).

double-circle

Display double circles as marks. The filled double-circle is '◉' (U+25C9), and the open double-circle is '◎にじゅうまる' (U+25CE).

triangle

Display triangles as marks. The filled triangle is '▲さんかく' (U+25B2), and the open triangle is '△しろさんかく' (U+25B3).

sesame

Display sesames as marks. The filled sesame is '﹅' (U+FE45), and the open sesame is '﹆' (U+FE46).

<string>

Display the given string as marks. Authors should not specify more than one character in <string>. The UA may truncate or ignore strings consisting of more than one grapheme cluster.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

text-emphasis-style = 
 none | 
 [ [ filled | open ] || [ dot | circle | double-circle | triangle | sesame ] ] | 
 <string> 

Examples

Basic example

h2 {
 -webkit-text-emphasis-style: sesame;
 text-emphasis-style: sesame;
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• The related properties text-emphasis-color, text-emphasis.
• The text-emphasis-position property allowing to define the position of the emphasis marks.