I am attempting to have a link show up in white, without an underline. The text color shows up correctly as white, but the blue underline is stubbornly persisting. I tried text-decoration: none; and text-decoration: none !important; in the CSS to remove the link underline. Neither worked. 

.boxhead .otherPage { color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
<div> <h2> <span>Current Page</span> <a href="myLink"><span>Different Page</span></a> </h2> </div>

How can I remove the blue underline from the link?

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You are not applying text-decoration: none; to an anchor (.boxhead a) but to a span element (.boxhead).

Try this:

.boxhead a { color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
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The anchor tag (link) also has pseudo-classes such as visited, hover, link and active. Make sure your style is applied to the state(s) in question and that no other styles are conflicting.

For example:

a:hover, a:visited, a:link, a:active { text-decoration: none; }

See W3.org for more information on user action pseudo-classes :hover, :active, and :focus.

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text-decoration: none !important should remove it .. Are you sure there isn't a border-bottom: 1px solid lurking about? (Trace the computed style in Firebug/F12 in IE)

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Just add this attribute to your anchor tag

style="text-decoration:none;"

Example:

<a href="page.html"></a>

Or use the CSS way. 

.classname a { color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
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Sometimes what you're seeing is a box shadow, not a text underline.

Try this (using whatever CSS selectors are appropriate for you):

a:hover, a:visited, a:link, a:active { text-decoration: none!important; -webkit-box-shadow: none!important; box-shadow: none!important; }
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You missed text-decoration:none for the anchor tag. So code should be following.

.boxhead a { text-decoration: none; }
<div> <h2> <span>Current Page</span> <a href="myLink"><span>Different Page</span></a> </h2> </div>

More standard properties for text-decoration

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As a rule, if your "underline" is not the same color as your text [and the 'color:' is not overridden inline] it is not coming from "text-decoration:" It has to be "border-bottom:"

Don't forget to take the border off your pseudo classes too!

a, a:link, a:visited, a:active, a:hover {border:0!important;}

This snippet assumes its on an anchor, change to it's wrapper accordingly... and use specificity instead of "!important" after you track down the root cause.

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Without seeing the page, hard to speculate.

But it sounds to me like you may have a border-bottom: 1px solid blue; being applied. Perhaps add border: none;. text-decoration: none !important is right, it's possible that you have another style that is still overriding that CSS though.

This is where using the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar is awesome, you can edit the CSS right there and see if things work, at least for Firefox. It's under CSS > Edit CSS.

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While the other answers are correct, there is an easy way to get rid of the underline on all those pesky links:

a { text-decoration:none; }

This will remove the underline from EVERY SINGLE LINK on your page!

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 a { color: unset; text-decoration: unset; }

You've used text-decoration none in the wrong selector. You need to check which tag do you need for decoration none.

You may use this code

.boxhead h2 a{text-decoration: none;}

OR

.boxhead a{text-decoration: none !important;}

OR

a{text-decoration: none !important;}

Just use the property

border:0;

and you are covered. Worked perfectly for me when text-decoration property dint work at all.

If text-decoration: none or border: 0 doesn't work, try applying inline style in your html.

None of the answers worked for me. In my case there was a standard 

a:-webkit-any-link { text-decoration: underline;

in my code. Basically whatever link it is, the text color goes blue, and the link stays whatever it is.

So I added the code at the end of the header like this: 

<head> </style> a:-webkit-any-link { text-decoration: none; } </style> </head>

and problem is no more.

As others pointed out, it seems like you can't override nested text-decoration styles... BUT you can change the text-decoration-color.

As a hack, I changed the color to be transparent:

 text-decoration-color: transparent;

Put the following HTML code before the <BODY> tag:

<STYLE>A {text-decoration: none;} </STYLE>

In my case, I had poorly formed HTML. The link was within a <u> tag, and not a <ul> tag.

set text-decoration: none; for anchor tag.

Example html.

<body> <ul> <li><a href="#"><i></i>Business</a></li> <li><a href="#"><i></i>Expertise</a></li> <li><a href="#"><i></i>Quality</a></li> </ul> </body>

Example CSS:

.nav-tabs li a{ text-decoration: none; }

Overriding Nested text-decoration styles.
Look for any ::before or ::after selectors and display none to any text-decoration, border-bottom, etc. or reset a property (unset) to any text color property like: text-decoration-color, background-color, etc.

.boxhead .otherPage { color: #FFFFFF; } a.boxhead .otherPage:before { background-color: unset; }

or

a.boxhead .otherPage:before { background-color: unset !important; }

Here is an example for the asp.net webforms LinkButton control:

 <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ForeColor="Blue" />

Code behind:

 lbmmr1.Attributes.Add("style", "text-decoration: none;")