`text-emphasis-style` CSS property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It's been available across browsers since March 2022.

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: "\25B2";
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 '●' (U+25CF), and the open circle is '○' (U+25CB).
double-circle: Display double circles as marks. The filled double-circle is '◉' (U+25C9), and the open double-circle is '◎' (U+25CE).
triangle: Display triangles as marks. The filled triangle is '▲' (U+25B2), and the open triangle is '△' (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

Initial value	none
Applies to	all elements
Inherited	yes
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	discrete

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

Specification
CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3 # text-emphasis-style-property

Browser compatibility

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`text-emphasis-style`	99 25	99 79	46	85 15	7 7	99 25	46	68 14	7 7	18.0 1.5	99 4.4	7 7
`circle`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7
`dot`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7
`double-circle`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7
`filled`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7
`none`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7
`open`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7
`sesame`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7
`triangle`	99	99	46	85	7	99	46	68	7	18.0	99	7