Breakable colored underline in CSS

Question

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

text-decoration-color seems to be not supported widely 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>

Answer 1

What about a linear-gradient where it will be easy to control color, size and distance within a single 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>

As a side note, border-bottom works fine used with inline element but of course you cannot easily control the distance to make it behave as a text-decoration:

.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>

Answer 2

Try this JSFiddle

By wrapping the elements like you have in a span. You can put the text decoration on the parent element and the text color on the span.

HTML:

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

CSS:

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

.underline {
  color: blue;
}