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This chapter teaches you how to manipulate text using CSS properties. You can set following text
properties of an element −

The color property is used to set the color of a text.

The direction property is used to set the text direction.

The letter-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the letters that make
up a word.

The word-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the words of a
sentence.

The text-indent property is used to indent the text of a paragraph.

The text-align property is used to align the text of a document.

The text-decoration property is used to underline, overline, and strikethrough text.

The text-transform property is used to capitalize text or convert text to uppercase or


lowercase letters.

The white-space property is used to control the flow and formatting of text.

The text-shadow property is used to set the text shadow around a text.

Set the Text Color


The following example demonstrates how to set the text color. Possible value could be any color
name in any valid format.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="color:red;">
This text will be written in red.
</p>
</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −

Set the Text Direction


The following example demonstrates how to set the direction of a text. Possible values are ltr or rtl.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="direction:rtl;">
This text will be renedered from right to left
</p>
</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −

Set the Space between Characters


The following example demonstrates how to set the space between characters. Possible values are
normal or a number specifying space..

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="letter-spacing:5px;">
This text is having space between letters.
</p>
</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −

Set the Space between Words


The following example demonstrates how to set the space between words. Possible values are
normal or a number specifying space.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="word-spacing:5px;">
This text is having space between words.
</p>
</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −


Set the Text Indent
The following example demonstrates how to indent the first line of a paragraph. Possible values
are % or a number specifying indent space.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="text-indent:1cm;">
This text will have first line indented by 1cm and this line will remain at
its actual position this is done by CSS text-indent property.
</p>
</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −

Set the Text Alignment


The following example demonstrates how to align a text. Possible values are left, right, center,
justify.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="text-align:right;">
This will be right aligned.
</p>

<p style="text-align:center;">
This will be center aligned.
</p>

<p style="text-align:left;">
This will be left aligned.
</p>

</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −


Decorating the Text
The following example demonstrates how to decorate a text. Possible values are none, underline,
overline, line-through, blink.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="text-decoration:underline;">
This will be underlined
</p>

<p style="text-decoration:line-through;">
This will be striked through.
</p>

<p style="text-decoration:overline;">
This will have a over line.
</p>

<p style="text-decoration:blink;">
This text will have blinking effect
</p>
</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result &minnus;

Set the Text Cases


The following example demonstrates how to set the cases for a text. Possible values are none,
capitalize, uppercase, lowercase.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="text-transform:capitalize;">
This will be capitalized
</p>

<p style="text-transform:uppercase;">
This will be in uppercase
</p>
<p style="text-transform:lowercase;">
This will be in lowercase
</p>
</body>

</html>

It will produce the following result:

Set the White Space between Text


The following example demonstrates how white space inside an element is handled. Possible
values are normal, pre, nowrap.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="white-space:pre;">
This text has a line break and the white-space pre setting tells the browser to
honor
it just like the HTML pre tag.</p>
</body>
</html>

It will produce the following result −

Set the Text Shadow


The following example demonstrates how to set the shadow around a text. This may not be
supported by all the browsers.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="text-shadow:4px 4px 8px blue;">
If your browser supports the CSS text-shadow property, this text will have a blue
shadow.
</p>
</body>
</html>
It will produce the following result −

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