The CSS text properties define the appearance of text:
text example
This example includes some text formatting properties. The heading uses the text-align, text-transform, and color properties. The paragraph is indented and aligned, and the underline is removed from the "Try it yourself" link.
Text Color
The color property is used to set the color of the text. The color can be set by:
- name - specify a color name, like "red"
- RGB - specify an RGB value, like "rgb(255,0,0)"
- Hex - specify a hex value, like "#ff0000"
The default color for a page is defined in the body
selector.
For W3C compliant
CSS: If you define the color property, you must also define the background-color property.
Text Alignment
The text-align property is used to set the horizontal alignment of a text.
Text can be centered, or aligned to
the left or right, or justified.
When text-align is set to "justify", each line is stretched so that every line has equal width, and the
left and right margins are straight (like in magazines and newspapers).
Example
h1 {text-align:center}
p.date {text-align:right}
p.main {text-align:justify} |
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Text Decoration
The text-decoration property is used to set or remove decorations from text.
The
text-decoration property is mostly used to remove underlines from links for design purposes:
It can also be used
to decorate text:
Example
h1 {text-decoration:overline}
h2 {text-decoration:line-through}
h3 {text-decoration:underline}
h4 {text-decoration:blink} |
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It is not recommended to underline text that is not a link, as this often confuse users.
Text Transformation
The text-transform property is used to specify uppercase and lowercase letters in a text.
It can be used to turn everything into uppercase or lowercase letters, or capitalize the first letter of each word.
Example
p.uppercase {text-transform:uppercase}
p.lowercase {text-transform:lowercase}
p.capitalize {text-transform:capitalize} |
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Text Indentation
The text-indentation property is used to specify the indentation of the
first line of a text.
Example
p {text-indent:50px} CSS Font
CSS gives you great control over the way your text is displayed. You can change the
text size, color, style, and more. You probably already knew how to make text bold or underlined, but did you know you could resize your font using percentages? Let us begin the lesson with an easy and important font attribute, color!
CSS Font Color
Although the color of the text seems like it would be part of
CSS Font, it actually is a standalone attribute in
CSS. This could be for many reasons, including the fact that it will be used a great deal, so why make the coder type out "font-color", when they could just type out "color" instead? Here's an example of changing the color of your font.
CSS Code:
h4 { color: red; }
h5 { color: #9000A1; }
h6 { color: rgb(0, 220, 98); } Display:
This is a red h4 header.
This is a hexadecimal #9000A1 h5 header.
This is an rgb(0, 220, 98) h6 header.
In the above example we used three different formats for defining a color: a color name, hexadecimal values, and RGB. Check out
the list of supported
color names. Hexadecimal form is a pound sign (#) followed by at most 6 hex values (0-F). RGB defines the individual values for Red, Green, and Blue.
Example form: rgb(Red, Green, Blue); with the range of 0-255 for each value.
CSS Font Family
Font
families can be divided into two groups:
serif and sans-serif. A sans-serif font does not include the small lines at the end of characters, while a serif font does include these small lines. When choosing which kind you prefer, remember that studies have shown that sans-serif fonts are much easier to read on a computer monitor than serif fonts.
CSS Code:
h4 { font-family: sans-serif; }
h5 { font-family: serif; }
h6 { font-family: arial; } Display:
This is a header with sans-serif font
This is a header with a serif font
This is a header with an arial font
As you probably noticed throughout Tizag.com, we do not use serif fonts, except in special cases, like for the titles of the Code and Display boxes.
CSS Font Size
You can manipulate the size of your fonts by using values, percentages, or key terms. Using values are useful if you do not want the user to be able to increase the size of the font because your site will look
incorrect if they did so. Percentages are great when you want to change the default font, but do not want to set a static value.
CSS Code:
p { font-size: 120%; }
ol{ font-size: 10px; }
ul{ font-size: x-large; }Display:
This is a font size of 120%
- This is a font size of 10px
- This is a font size of "x-large"
Though key terms are not very useful, the common terms are: xx-large, x-large, large, medium, small, x-small, and xx-small.
CSS Font Style
CSS Font-Style is where you define if your font will be italic or not. Possible key terms are the following: italic, oblique, and normal.
CSS Code:
p { font-style: italic; }
h4{ font-style: oblique; }Display:
This is an italic font
This is an oblique font
CSS Font Weight
If you want to control the weight of your font (its thickness), using font weight is the best way to go about it. We suggest that you only use font-weight in multiples of 100 (e.g. 200, 300, etc) because any less and you probably will not see any difference. The values range from 100 (thin)-900 (thick).
CSS Code:
p { font-weight: 100; }
ul{ font-weight: bolder; }Display:
This is a font with a weight of 100 - This is a font with
- a "bolder" weight
Available key terms for font-weight: bold, bolder, and normal.
CSS Font Variant
CSS Font Variant allows you to convert your font to all small caps. Note: not every font supports
CSS Font Variant, so be sure to test before you publish.
CSS Code:
p { font-variant: small-caps; }
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