How to remove an underline on a pseudo-element?

Question

On Chrome and Firefox, if I apply a text-decoration:underline on a tag, by default the underline does not apply to the pseudo element. But on IE it does, and I can\'t remove

Answer 1

As text-decoration: underline; can't be overridden in IE you could use border-bottom: 1px solid green; instead. This can then be overwritten on the :before by setting its border colour to the background colour (in this case white). This will only work on solid colour backgrounds though.

a {		
  color: green;
  display: inline-block;
  padding-left: 9px;
  position: relative;
  text-decoration: none;
}
a:before {
  content: '\203A\00a0';
  display: inline-block;
  left: 0;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
}
a:hover {
  border-bottom: 1px solid green;
}
a:hover:before {
  border-bottom: 1px solid white;
}

<a href="#" id="underline">Hover to check underline</a>

Answer 2

you can add this to your css. this helped me in the IE

a {text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
a:before,a:after { text-decoration:underline;}
a:before,a:after,
a:hover:before,a:hover:after {text-decoration:none;}

Answer 3

It seems that IE don't let you override the text-decoration in the pseudoelement if it isn't set in it. First let the pseudo-element be underlined - text-decoration: underline - and afterwards override this with textdecoration: none.

#underline:hover:before
{
	text-decoration:underline;
}

#underline:hover:before
{
	text-decoration:none;
}