Styling Text - Beginning CSS3 - page 59

Table 4-4. Text Formatting Properties

Property Initial Value Inherited Description

CSS2.1 properties
letter-spacing normal Yes Adjusts the horizontal space between

characters.

text-align Yes Controls whether text is aligned to the left

or right, centered, or justified. The default
in English and other Western European
languages is left-aligned. In right-to-left
languages, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu,
it's right-aligned.

text-decoration none No Draws a line under, over, or through text.

text-indent 0 Yes Indents the first line of text.

text-transform none

Yes Converts text to initial capitals, all uppercase,

or all lowercase.

vertical-align baseline No Controls the vertical alignment of inline

elements, such as <span> and images.

white-space normal Yes Controls how spaces and word wrapping are

handled.

word-spacing normal Yes Adjusts the width of the space character.

CSS3 properties

overflow-wrap normal Preferred name for word-wrap (see “Breaking

Overflow Text” later in this chapter).

Yes

text-align-last auto Yes Sets the alignment of the last line of a text

block.

text-decoration-color currentColor No Sets the color of underlines, overlines, and

line-throughs created by text-decoration .

text-decoration-line none No Specifies what line decorations, if any, are

added to the text.

text-decoration-style solid

No Specifies the type of line used for text

decoration, for example, solid or wavy.

text-overflow clip No Cuts off text that's too long to fit, optionally

replacing with ellipsis. Must be used in
conjunction with the overflow property (see
Chapter 6 ).

text-shadow none Yes Applies one or more shadows to text.

word-wrap normal

Yes Allows long text, such as a URL, to be broken

if it would otherwise overflow.