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Typography and Text with CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are crucial to the art of typography on the web. Authors and designers not familiar with the use of CSS have extremely limited control of their web pages, and in the XML based future of the web, they have exactly no control.
CSS is an extremely powerful and intricate tool, but it is not difficult to use for controlling font and text properties on the web. Although these guides assume a basic knowledge of how CSS works, they will also be useful for relative beginners. The font and text properties of CSS are among the simplest in the language, and are a good place to begin a more detailed look at the possibilities when using style sheets.
Every text and font property of CSS is covered in this guide. Select one from below to get started.
Text Properties
- Text Direction
- Whitespace
- Text Transform
- Text Decoration
- Line Height
- Letter Spacing
- Word Spacing
- Text align
- Text Indent
Font Properties
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