Question

Totally baffled! I’ve tried rewriting the text-decoration: none line several different ways. I also managed to re-size the text by targeting it but the text-decoration: none code will not take.

Help much appreciated.

Code

.widget    
{
     height: 320px;
     width: 220px;
     background-color: #e6e6e6;
     position: relative;                              
     overflow: hidden;                          
}


.title    
{
     font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;
     font-size: 12px;
     color: #E6E6E6;
     text-align: center;
     letter-spacing: 1px;
     text-transform: uppercase;
     background-color: #4D4D4D;    
     position: absolute;
     top: 0;
     padding: 5px;
     width: 100%;
     margin-bottom: 1px;
     height: 28px;
     text-decoration: none;
}

a .title    
{
     text-decoration: none;
}

<a href="#">
    <div class="widget">  
        <div class="title">Underlined. Why?</div>  
    </div>
</a>

Answer 1

You have a block element (div) inside an inline element (a). This works in HTML 5, but not HTML 4. Thus also only browsers that actually support HTML 5.

When browsers encounter invalid markup, they will try to fix it, but different browsers will do that in different ways, so the result varies. Some browsers will move the block element outside the inline element, some will ignore it.