CSS bursting color underline

Question

I would like to have a colored underline that looks like this when it breaks:

text-decoration-color doesn't seem to be supported enough.

I tried this:

.underline {
  position: relative;
 }

.underline:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: '';
  height: 1px;
  background-color: #ffc04d;
  bottom: .1rem;
  right: 0;
  left: 0;
  z-index: -1;
}

 <h1><span class="underline">Sprouted Bread</span></h1>

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Answer 1

Try this JSFiddle

Wrap items like yours in between. You can place the text decoration on the parent element and the text color in the gap.

HTML:

<h1><span class="underline">Some Text</span></h1>

CSS

h1 {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: red;
}

.underline {
  color: blue;
}

Answer 2

How about a linear gradient where it will be easy to control the color, size and distance within one element:

.underline {
  position: relative;
  font-size:28px;
  background:
    linear-gradient(yellow,yellow) /* Color */
    left 0 bottom 2px/ /* Position */
    100% 2px  /* Size (width height)*/
    no-repeat;
 }

<div style="width:150px;text-align:center"><span class="underline">Sprouted Bread</span></div>

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, border-bottom , , , , :

.underline {
  position: relative;
  font-size:28px;
  border-bottom:2px solid yellow;
 }

<div style="width:150px;text-align:center"><span class="underline">Sprouted Bread</span></div>

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Answer 3

Just add a border!

Using display: inline, add a lower border and a space with padding.

You can also use line-heightand then put negative fields to increase the space between the lines.

And ... you can also animate it!

.underline {
  position: relative;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ffc04d;
}

<h1 style="width: 5em">
  <span class="underline">Sprouted Bread</span>
</h1>

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^{As @chriskirknielsen already mentioned, you can use box-decoration-break , although this is not supported by IE or Edge . Credits: @Temani Afif}