# How to change color of the underline but not the text?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-the-underline-but-not-the-text/177344>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [February 1, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-the-underline-but-not-the-text/177344 "2006-02-01T04:58:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![hisham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f14d63/32.png) [@hisham](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hisham)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-change-color-of-the-underline-but-not-the-text/177344/1 "2006-02-01T04:58:56Z")

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hi,

Say for example i have a white text, I want to change the color of the underline to red, leaving the text white as it was.

How can i do it? I tried every possible way…

Any help is appreciated…