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Don't want to rain on your parade, but this is a long way from being generally available: https://caniuse.com/#search=text-decoration-thickness

11% coverage, and almost all of that is iOS Safari.

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This is one of these cases though, were coverage doesn't really matter. The fall-back is fairly reasonable.

That's true, but if I used all CSS properties with this amount of coverage it would cause a lot of extra work for very little gain. If this is something that really gets your goat, and you use Firefox, perhaps it's worth it to scratch the itch, but otherwise pretty useless currently.

But if you'd otherwise use border-bottom hacks, this is a good reason to stop doing those and just have Chrome users live with the not-terrible default underline until Chrome supports those properties as well.

It's coming to Chromium soon

> We have plans to start implementation work on this before the end of the year.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=785230...

Thanks for the heads-up. That will make it worthwhile. It will be nice to drop the dirty border-bottom hacks.

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