# Do you like the new Chrome underlines?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-the-new-chrome-underlines/807920
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 1, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-the-new-chrome-underlines/807920 "2018-02-01T01:28:31Z")
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### Author: ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-the-new-chrome-underlines/807920/21 "2018-02-17T04:04:11Z")

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I rather like it.

But i’ve always been a little off.

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### Author: ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-the-new-chrome-underlines/807920/22 "2018-02-17T06:58:18Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> My Safari browser on the iPad has the broken style underline. Has it always been this way? If so, that’s probably why I never noticed it when using Chrome on the desktop.

Chrome and Safari are both based on WebKit, which derives from Khtml, the open source KDE browser. But Apple has long been interested in aesthetics and may have this feature present across the board as a function of general text rendering (it appears that way in Notes but, oddly, not that way in Pages).

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### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2018, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-the-new-chrome-underlines/807920/23 "2018-02-18T09:47:28Z")

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Apparently Safari had it first, before they finalized exactly how the stylesheet would work. I don’t know if they actually used it by default or not, though.

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