What to do when Ctrl + U Fails You
When you’re engaging in content writing, often times you may want to emphasize a bit of text by placing it in a different type of formatting from the other words around it. This can be done by underlining, highlighting, bolding or placing text in italics, for example.
I recall the moment when I first started my WordPress blog. I had no idea how to underline text when using the WordPress block editor. After hitting Ctrl + U a few times unsuccessfully, I decided to do some research to find the solution. And guess what? The good news is that there in no need to install any additional plugins to underline in WordPress. In this article, I’ll be showing you how to underline in WordPress in three (3) simple steps, so keep reading to see how it’s done.
Step 1
First, simply select the bit of text you want to underline either by double clicking (if it is merely one word of text), or right clicking and dragging the mouse mouse from right to left / left to right (if the text that you want to underline consists of more than one word). Once selected, the background color of chosen text will change, while the unselected text will remain with a white background. See the below image.
Step 2
Next, click the ‘Down Arrow’ from the menu. The ‘Down Arrow’ is located right next to the ‘Link’ icon. Doing this will display a new Dropdown menu with additional Block Tools such as ‘Highlight‘, ‘Justify’, ‘Strikethrough‘, and more.
Step 3
Lastly, scroll and click on the ‘Underline’ option in the Dropdown menu. Doing this will instantly underline the selected text. See the image of the final result below.
There you have it! How to underline text using three (3) simple steps in WordPress. Not too complicated, right?
Why You May Want to Avoid Underling text in WordPress
While it might be tempting to underline and justify text on a your website, you should consider not doing so for a few reasons. If you are an avid blog post reader you may have noticed that underling text is not that popular in WordPress blog posts. This is because underlined text can at times look like internal or external links, leading to confusion on your website when readers try to click expecting to be redirected to other pages. One of the major reasons why this misinterpretation might happen is because most external URL links, when placed in PDF and Microsoft Word documents, are automatically underlined.
Nonetheless, the final decision of whether to underline text in your blog posts is up to you, the site owner.
Conclusion
Thank you for reading this blog post on how to underline in WordPress in three (3) simple steps when using the block editor. I hope that after reading this post you will be able to enhance you WordPress editing capabilities and improve the readability of your written blog posts going forward by utilizing the underlining tool.
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