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Formating Text Using CSS
This document discusses CSS font properties that can be used to format text, including font-family, font-size, font-weight, font-style, font-variant, line-height, text-indent, text-align, text-decoration, text-transform, letter-spacing, and word-spacing. It provides examples of how to set these properties in CSS code and explains what values they can be set to, such as keywords like normal and bold for font-weight or length measurements for properties like letter-spacing.
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Formating Text Using CSS
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- 2. Font Properties font-familyfont-size font-weight font-style font-variant font
- 3. Font Properties Font-Familyfont-family p { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; } generic font families - sans-serif, serif, monospace, cursive, fantasy
- 4. Font Properties CoreFonts Sans Serif Arial , Arial Black , Trebuchet , Verdana Serif Georgia , Times New Roman Monospace Courier New , Andale Mono Cursive Apple Chancery , Comic Sans , Snell Fantasy Impact , Stencil
- 5. font-size h1 {font-size: 1.5em;} Font Properties Font-size
- 6. Font Properties Font-sizept - points 1/72 inch pc - (1 pica = 12 points) mm - millimeters cm - centimeters in - inches em – size of M ex - height of lowercase “x” px - varies with display resolution % percentage values Absolute Units Relative Units
- 7. Font Properties Font-sizebody { font-size: 16pt; } h1 {font-size: 200%; } The font size of the h1 type would be 32 points
- 8. Font Properties Font-sizexx-small x-small small medium Keywords Large x-Large xx-Large
- 9. Font Properties Font-sizeThere are two relative keywords: Larger and Smaller <span style="font-size: larger "> Larger </span> <span style="font-size: smaller "> Smaller </span></p> Used to shift the size of text relative to the parent element.
- 10. font-weight h1 {font-weight: bold;} Font Properties Font-weight
- 11. font-weight Possible valuesinclude: normal, bold, bolder, lighter Or (not often used) 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 , 700, 800, 900 Font Properties Font-weight
- 12. font-style h1 {font-style: italic;} Possible values are normal, italic, oblique, inherit Font Properties Font-style
- 13. font-variant h1 {font-variant: small-caps;} Possible values are normal, small-caps, inherit Font Properties Font-variant
- 14. Font Properties Singlerule font: style weight variant size /line-height font-family h1 { font: 1em serif;} h1 { font: oblique bold small-caps 1.5em/1.8em Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif ;}
- 15. font-color h1 {font-color: gray;} h1 { font-color: #666666;} h1 { font-color: #666;} Font Properties Font-color
- 16. Font Properties Descendant,Child and Sibling Selectors Example What it does li em { color: olive;} Selects only <em> tags when they are included in <li> p > em {color: olive;} Selects only <em> tags when their parent is a <p> called a "child selector" h1 + p Targets only <p> tags when they follow an <h1> tag called a "sibling selector"
- 17. Font Properties IDSelectors Example What it does <li id="salelist">Tshirt<li> Unique ID selector used in a tag. li#salelist { color: red; } When this is added to the style sheet, the text enclosed in this <li> tag would be red. #salelist { color: red; } The selector can be shorted to just this.
- 18. Font Properties IDSelectors Example What it does #sidebar li { color: blue; } Unique ID selector defined in the style sheet. Any line item that appears in the element designated as sidebar would be blue.
- 19. Font Properties ClassSelectors Example What it does <p class="special"> Class selectors can be used multiple times in a document. p.special { color: orange; } Using this in the style sheet indicates that all paragraphs with the class special would be orange. .special { color: orange; } All tags with the class="special" selector would be orange.
- 20. Font Properties TextAdjustments - Line Height line-height p { line-height: 2em;} Possible values are number, percentage, normal, inherit
- 21. Font Properties TextAdjustments - Indents text-indent p { text-indent: 2em;} Possible values are percentage, length measurement, inherit
- 22. Font Properties TextAdjustments - alignment text-align p { text-align: left;} Possible values are left, right, center, justify
- 23. Font Properties TextAdjustments - decoration text-decoration p { text-decoration: underline;} Possible values are none, underline, overline, line-through, blink, inherit
- 24. Font Properties TextAdjustments - Capitalization text-transform p { text-transform: capitalize;} Possible values are none, capitalize, lowercase, uppercase, inherit
- 25. Font Properties TextAdjustments - Spacing letter-spacing p { letter-spacing: 1.2em;} Possible values are length measurement, normal, inherit
- 26. Font Properties TextAdjustments - Spacing word-spacing p { word-spacing: 1.2em;} Possible values are length measurement, normal, inherit