text-decoration:overline line-through
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'> <head> <title>text-decoration</title> <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> body { font: 14px sans-serif; } p { padding: 5px 25px; background: lightblue; border: 1px solid black; } span.overthrough { text-decoration: overline line-through; } </style> </head> <body> <span class='overthrough'>overline and line-through text</span> </p> </body> </html>