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CSS Text

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 specified by:

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

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

Example

body {color:blue}
h1 {color:#00ff00}
h2 {color:rgb(255,0,0)}

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Remark 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:

Example

a {text-decoration:none}

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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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Remark 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}

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More Examples

Specify the space between characters
This example demonstrates how to increase or decrease the space between characters.

Specify the space between lines
This example demonstrates how to specify the space between the lines in a paragraph.

Set the text direction of an element
This example demonstrates how to change the text direction of an element.

Increase the white space between words
This example demonstrates how to increase the white space between words in a paragraph.

Disable text wrapping inside an element
This example demonstrates how to disable text wrapping inside an element.

Vertical alignment of an image
This example demonstrates how to set the vertical align of an image in a text.

All CSS Text Properties

The number in the "CSS" column indicates in which CSS version the property is defined (CSS1 or CSS2).

Property	Description	Values	CSS
color	Sets the color of a text	color	1
direction	Sets the text direction	ltr rtl	2
line-height	Sets the distance between lines	normal number length %	1
letter-spacing	Increase or decrease the space between characters	normal length	1
text-align	Aligns the text in an element	left right center justify	1
text-decoration	Adds decoration to text	none underline overline line-through blink	1
text-indent	Indents the first line of text in an element	length %	1
text-shadow		none color length
text-transform	Controls the letters in an element	none capitalize uppercase lowercase	1
unicode-bidi		normal embed bidi-override	2
vertical-align	Sets the vertical alignment of an element	baseline sub super top text-top middle bottom text-bottom length %	1
white-space	Sets how white space inside an element is handled	normal pre nowrap	1
word-spacing	Increase or decrease the space between words	normal length	1

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