# Feature Request: underline text

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/feature-request-underline-text/343>\
**Category:** Spec\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/feature-request-underline-text/343 "2014-09-04T16:31:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![mofosyne](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/mofosyne/32/1438_2.png) [@mofosyne](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/mofosyne)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/feature-request-underline-text/343/10 "2014-10-18T03:33:18Z")

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Does anyone even use `_` in place of `*` in `*italic*` or ` **bold** `? If we can get a corpus of current markdown comments, I would like to know the amount of usage of `_`. I’m guessing not enough people is using it enough, and could be used for underlining purpose without much harm.

(I personally never used `_`, never seen the point. But I can see the usefulness of underlining or highlighting like `_this_text_is_underlined_`. )

I think if you want to implement stuff useful for reviewing, check out [http://criticmarkup.com/](http://criticmarkup.com/) for inspiration

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