Web Design tutorial Css Part-8 CSS - Text
CSS - Text
This chapter teaches you how to manipulate text using CSS properties. You can set following text properties of an element −
- The color property is used to set the color of a text.
- The direction property is used to set the text direction.
- The letter-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the letters that make up a word.
- The word-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the words of a sentence.
- The text-indent property is used to indent the text of a paragraph.
- The text-align property is used to align the text of a document.
- The text-decoration property is used to underline, overline, and strikethrough text.
- The text-transform property is used to capitalize text or convert text to uppercase or lowercase letters.
- The white-space property is used to control the flow and formatting of text.
- The text-shadow property is used to set the text shadow around a text.
Set the Text Color
The following example demonstrates how to set the text color. Possible value could be any color name in any valid format.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="color:red;"> This text will be written in red. </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
Set the Text Direction
The following example demonstrates how to set the direction of a text. Possible values are ltr or rtl.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="direction:rtl;"> This text will be renedered from right to left </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
Set the Space between Characters
The following example demonstrates how to set the space between characters. Possible values are normal or a number specifying space..
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="letter-spacing:5px;"> This text is having space between letters. </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
Set the Space between Words
The following example demonstrates how to set the space between words. Possible values are normal or a number specifying space.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="word-spacing:5px;"> This text is having space between words. </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
Set the Text Indent
The following example demonstrates how to indent the first line of a paragraph. Possible values are % or a number specifying indent space.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="text-indent:1cm;"> This text will have first line indented by 1cm and this line will remain at its actual position this is done by CSS text-indent property. </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
Set the Text Alignment
The following example demonstrates how to align a text. Possible values areleft, right, center, justify.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="text-align:right;"> This will be right aligned. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"> This will be center aligned. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"> This will be left aligned. </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
Decorating the Text
The following example demonstrates how to decorate a text. Possible values are none, underline, overline, line-through, blink.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="text-decoration:underline;"> This will be underlined </p> <p style="text-decoration:line-through;"> This will be striked through. </p> <p style="text-decoration:overline;"> This will have a over line. </p> <p style="text-decoration:blink;"> This text will have blinking effect </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result &minnus;
Set the Text Cases
The following example demonstrates how to set the cases for a text. Possible values are none, capitalize, uppercase, lowercase.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="text-transform:capitalize;"> This will be capitalized </p> <p style="text-transform:uppercase;"> This will be in uppercase </p> <p style="text-transform:lowercase;"> This will be in lowercase </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result:
Set the White Space between Text
The following example demonstrates how white space inside an element is handled. Possible values are normal, pre, nowrap.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="white-space:pre;"> This text has a line break and the white-space pre setting tells the browser to honor it just like the HTML pre tag.</p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
Set the Text Shadow
The following example demonstrates how to set the shadow around a text. This may not be supported by all the browsers.
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style="text-shadow:4px 4px 8px blue;"> If your browser supports the CSS text-shadow property, this text will have a blue shadow. </p> </body> </html>
It will produce the following result −
