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.
Live Demo
<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.
Live Demo
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style = "direction:rtl;">
This text will be rendered 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..
Live Demo
<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.
Live Demo
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style = "word-spacing:5px;">
This text is having space between words.
</p>
</body>
</html>
This will produce 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.
Live Demo
<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 are left, right, center, justify.
Live Demo
<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>
This will produce following result −
Decorating the Text
The following example demonstrates how to decorate a text. Possible values are none, underline, overline, line-through, blink.
Live Demo
<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>
This will produce following result −
Set the Text Cases
The following example demonstrates how to set the cases for a text. Possible values are none, capitalize, uppercase, lowercase.
Live Demo
<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>
This will produce 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.
Live Demo
<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>
This will produce 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.
Live Demo
<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 −
