Thursday, February 16, 2017

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 are left, 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 −
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