To color the outline of text, hold Shift and click a color. To color a text, select the text, and click a color from the palette. Use Select Tool and select the text and 8 arrows appear around it and drag one to resize the text either it is shrinking or enlarging. For example, change a text font ( typeface) from Times New Roman to Liberation Serif. Once the attribute value is set, you see your text underlined:īe aware that in order to remove the underline you need to find it in the XML attribute value and delete it manually (it's not difficult).Use Text Tool and click the text and block select it and select a font from Font Chooser on toolbar. text-decoration: underline ), using a semicolon ' ' as separator, and press the Set button: Now, you need to click on 'style' row, add the desired CSS style at the end of the current style, (e.g. Your text is selected, and the corresponding XML node is selected in the editor (there is no need to find something). It's very simple to do: after typing your text, press the button for the XML editor ( Edit → XML Editor for Inkscape 1.x): SVG standard supports text decoration and Inkscape aims to be fully compliant with SVG standard, so I've tried to add this properties at xml level, and it worked: text-decoration: underline

In this specific case we need to add the property text-decoration with the value underline.Īt the moment there is no help in the insertion of the value, so pay attention to what you write.įor previous versions of Inkscape use the XML Editor The dialog allows to edit the CSS properties of the selected item, and is possible to add new properties by clicking the + button near the CSS selector definition:Ī drop-down menu helps to insert the properties. Update: since Inkscape 1.0.1 use Selector and CSS dialogĪs stated by davidvandebunte, Inkscape 1.0.1 introduced in the the Object menu the Selectors and CSS dialog (that was previously experimental), the shortcut is Shift- Ctrl- Q.

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