text-decoration: underline vs border-bottom

Question

What is the difference to use {text-decoration: underline} and {border-bottom: ...}?

which is easy to style and cross browser compatible?

Answer 1

border-bottom puts a line at the bottom of the element box. text-decoration:underline renders the text underlined. The exact difference depends on the HTML and text layout engines in use, but in general if you want text underlined, then underline it.