CSS decrease space between text and border

Question

When hovering a link I want it to get an underline. The underline should be 2px strong and 4px below the text.

With

text-decoration: underline
         


        

Answer 1

You can use line-height for decrease distance.

.underline {
  display: inline-block;
  line-height: 0.9; // the distance
  border-bottom: 1px solid;
}

Drawback of this method -- because we use block display it works only for single line of the text.