Gutenberg: Add underline formatting

[guicmazeredo]

Steps to reproduce

1. Add a paragraph block to a post or page.
2. Add some text to it.
3. Select a word and use the shortcut Cmd + U (on Mac) or Ctrl + U (on Windows).
4. Notice underline won't be added to the text.

What I expected

Underline formatting to be added to the text.

What happened instead

The text remains with regular formatting.

Other

I know underline was removed since WordPress.com 4.7 like justify alignment and it was not included on Gutenberg for usability reasons. However, since we have a similar enhancement request for justify I'm opening this one for tracking similar request.

[guicmazeredo]

This report was originated by these requests:

• 1461188-hc
• Tweet: https://twitter.com/craighadlee/status/1085246835864756224

[zdenys]

Another report here 1825832-zen

[arunsathiya]

I can confirm that Cmd + U is not working, but it's not working on a core (WordPress.org) site either. This is a bug and seems to be discussed here WordPress/gutenberg#13034 (comment) which leads to WordPress/gutenberg#14031

I think we can close this issue on Calypso for core to fix it, but if I am leaving this open, for @Automattic/lannister to take a call.

[vindl]

Since the same issue is present in core and already tracked in Gutenberg repository, we can close this one out. Thanks for the ping @arunsathiya!

[supernovia]

Hi! Did we have a regression, or a decision against cmd U to underline? I just noticed this isn't working (a user was asking how to underline here)

[supernovia]

Noting too, this isn't working on .org either as far as I can tell; I commented on this issue but can't re-open it:
WordPress/gutenberg#13034

[edwinho89]

4757921-zd-woothemes

Note that it is also mentioned in our public facing doc as below:

Underline the selected text. – ⌘U

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[supernovia]

Command+U in Chrome on current mac still does not work. On Firefox, it opens a new tab with View Source.

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Support References

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• 1825832-zen
• https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/underlining-text-2
• 4757921-zen

[supernovia]

Linking to the correct issue: WordPress/gutenberg#14031

[nazilya06]

One more report here: 5997123 - Zen

[mrfoxtalbot]

This is fixed in core but I can still replicate it in dotcom (atomic & simple). Pressing CMD + U does nothing.

[ntsekouras]

Thanks for the issue! I'll close this as duplicate with #71631. I kept the newer one open, because some comments here also refer to GB when it had issue too.