CSS Text

Text Alignment

h1 {text-align:center;}
p.date {text-align:right;}
p.main {text-align:justify;}

Text can be centered, or aligned to the left or right, or justified.

Text Decoration

The text-decoration property is used to set or remove decorations from text.

a {text-decoration:none;}

h1 {text-decoration:overline;}
h2 {text-decoration:line-through;}
h3 {text-decoration:underline;}
h4 {text-decoration:blink;}

Text Transformation

It can be used to turn everything into uppercase or lowercase letters, or capitalize the first letter of each word.

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.

p {text-indent:50px;}

All CSS Text Properties

The number in the "CSS" column indicates in which CSS version the property is defined (CSS1 or CSS2).

Property	Description	Values
color	Sets the color of a text	color
direction	Sets the text direction	ltr rtl
line-height	Sets the distance between lines	normal number length %
letter-spacing	Increase or decrease the space between characters	normal length
text-align	Aligns the text in an element	left right center justify
text-decoration	Adds decoration to text	none underline overline line-through blink
text-indent	Indents the first line of text in an element	length %
text-shadow		none color length
text-transform	Controls the letters in an element	none capitalize uppercase lowercase
unicode-bidi		normal embed bidi-override
vertical-align	Sets the vertical alignment of an element	baseline sub super top text-top middle bottom text-bottom length %
white-space	Sets how white space inside an element is handled	normal pre nowrap
word-spacing	Increase or decrease the space between words	normal length