HTML: Text - Text in CSS

Text colors

Color properties help change colors for text, which can be determined by:

• color name - like: 'red'
• HEX value - like '# ff0000'
• RGB value - like 'rgb (255, 0, 0)'

The default color for the page will be defined in the body section.

 body { 
  color: blue; 
 } 
 
 h1 { 
  color: green; 
 } 

Note: For CSS to comply with W3C, when defining color, you must define both background-color.

Align text

The text-align helps align text horizontally: left, right, center, or marginal alignments on both sides. These are text examples that align with the center, left and right. The text direction from left to right default to left, right-to-left right-aligned text aligns right.

 h1 { 
  text-align: center; 
 } 
 
 h2 { 
  text-align: left; 
 } 
 
 h3 { 
  text-align: right; 
 } 

Example of text alignment

When the text-align is selected as justify, each line will have equal width, the text is aligned in both left and right margins.

A piece of text is aligned on both sides

Other format for text

The text-decoration helps add or remove some other text formats. text-decoration: none value text-decoration: none normally used to remove the underlined paragraph in the path.

 a { 
  text-decoration: none; 
 } 

Other text-decoration values also include underscores, dashes and underscores.

 h1 { 
  text-decoration: overline; 
 } 
 
 h2 { 
  text-decoration: line-through; 
 } 
 
 h3 { 
  text-decoration: underline; 
 } 

Note: Normally, it is not advisable to underline the text not the path because it is easy to confuse the reader.

Text-decoration feature for other special formats

Set lowercase and uppercase letters for text

The text-transformation helps identify lowercase and uppercase letters in text. It can turn both text into lowercase, uppercase or just capitalize the first letter of each word.

 p.uppercase { 
  text-transform: uppercase; 
 } 
 
 p.lowercase { 
  text-transform: lowercase; 
 } 
 
 p.capitalize { 
  text-transform: capitalize; 
 } 

Head off the text

The text-indent helps determine the beginning of the first line of the text.

 p { 
  text-indent: 50px; 
 } 

Distance between letters

The letter-spacing used to determine the distance between letters. The example below shows how the gap increases / decreases.

Specify the letter-spacing letter spacing

Height of the line

The line-height defines the height of the line, or the distance between the lines. The default line height on most browsers is typically about 110% to 120%.

 p.small { 
  line-height: 0.8; 
 } 
 
 p.big { 
  line-height: 1.8; 
 } 

Examples of lines between lines in CSS

Text direction

The feature direction helps change the direction of the text in the element. Text can be written from left to right (default) or from right to left 'rtl'.

 p { 
  direction: rtl; 
 } 

Distance between words

The word-spacing used to determine the distance between words in the text.

 h1 { 
  word-spacing: 10px; 
 } 
 
 h2 { 
  word-spacing: -5px; 
 }