CSS Text

text formatting

This text is styled with some of the text formatting properties. The heading uses the text-align, text-transform, and color properties. The paragraph is indented, aligned, and the space between characters is specified.

Text Color

The color property is used to set the color of the text.

With CSS, a color is most often specified by:

a color name - like "red"
a HEX value - like "#ff0000"
an RGB value - like "rgb(255,0,0)"

The default text color for a page is defined in the body selector.

See this example:

body {
color: blue;
}

h1 {
color: green;
}

Text Alignment

The text-align property is used to set the horizontal alignment of a text.

A text can be left or right aligned, centered, or justified.

The following example shows center aligned, and left and right aligned text (left alignment is default if text direction is left-to-right, and right alignment is default if text direction is right-to-left):

See this example:

h1 {
    text-align: center;
}

h2 {
    text-align: left;
}

h3 {
    text-align: right;
}
div {
    text-align: justify;
}

When the text-align property 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):

Text Decoration

The text-decoration property is used to set or remove decorations from text.

See this example:

a {
    text-decoration: none;
}
h1 {
    text-decoration: overline;
}

h2 {
    text-decoration: line-through;
}

h3 {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

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:

See this example:

p.uppercase {
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

p.lowercase {
    text-transform: lowercase;
}

p.capitalize {
    text-transform: capitalize;
}

Text Indentation

The text-indent property is used to specify the indentation of the first line of a text:

See this example:

p {
text-indent: 50px;
}

Letter Spacing

The letter-spacing property is used to specify the space between the characters in a text.

The following example demonstrates how to increase or decrease the space between characters:

See this example:

h1 {
letter-spacing: 3px;
}

h2 {
letter-spacing: -3px;
}

Line Height

The line-height property is used to specify the space between lines:

See this example:

p.small {
line-height: 0.8;
}

p.big {
line-height: 1.8;
}

Text Direction

The direction property is used to change the text direction of an element:

See this example:

div {
direction: rtl;
}

Word Spacing

The word-spacing property is used to specify the space between the words in a text.

The following example demonstrates how to increase or decrease the space between words:

See this example:

h1 {
word-spacing: 10px;
}

h2 {
word-spacing: -5px;
}

Text Shadow

The text-shadow property adds shadow to text.

The following example specifies the position of the horizontal shadow (3px), the position of the vertical shadow (2px) and the color of the shadow (red):

See this example:

h1 {
text-shadow: 3px 2px red;
}

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