Hey @praveenscience, italicizing the `<u>` element is actually intentional on my part for two reasons: underlined text on the web is best reserved for links and, historically, hand-written and typewritten documents included underlined words to indicate that the final typeset version of the text was to be *italicized* for emphasis—an early form of “markup”! [Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation on this.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underline)

Thanks for the question, and feel free to patch your version of typeset.css, but since I generally feel that incorrectly underlined text creates poor experiences on the web, I’ll keep `<u>`’s italicized for now. Curious, though, what’s your use-case for underlining text on the web?