Css Text

CSS Text

Text Color
The color property is used to set the color of the text.
With CSS, a color is most often specified by:
1. a HEX value - like "#ff0000"
 2. an RGB value - like "rgb(255,0,0)"
 3. a color name - like "red"

Look at CSS Color Values for a complete list of possible color values.
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);
}

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;
}

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;
}
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;
}


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;}


Text Indentation
The text-indentation property is used to specify the indentation of the first line of a text.
Example
 p {text-indent:50px;}

All CSS Text Properties
 Property                     Description
color                            Sets the color of text
direction                      Specifies the text direction/writing direction
 letter-spacing             Increases or decreases the space between characters in a text
line-height                  Sets the line height
text-align                   Specifies the horizontal alignment of text
 text-decoration         Specifies the decoration added to text
text-indent                 Specifies the indentation of the first line in a text-block
text-shadow              Specifies the shadow effect added to text
text-transform          Controls the capitalization of text
vertical-align            Sets the vertical alignment of an element white-space Specifies how
white-space               inside an element is handled
word-spacing             Increases or decreases the space between words in a text

Grouping Selectors
In style sheets there are often elements with the same style.
h1 {
 color:green;
}
 h2 {
color:green;
}
p {
color:green;
 }

To minimize the code, you can group selectors. Separate each selector with a comma. In the example below we have grouped the selectors from the code above:
Example
 h1,h2,p {
 color:green;
}

Nesting Selectors
 It is possible to apply a style for a selector within a selector. In the example below, one style is specified for all p elements, one style is specified for all elements with class="marked", and a third style is specified only for p elements within elements with class="marked":
Example
p {
color:blue;
 text-align:center;
}
 .marked {
 background-color:red;
 }
.marked p {
 color:white;
 }