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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

by Eric A. Meyer
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
16h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Text Transformation

Now let’s look at ways to manipulate the capitalization of text using the property text-transform.

The default value none leaves the text alone and uses whatever capitalization exists in the source document. As their names imply, uppercase and lowercase convert text into all upper- or lowercase characters. Finally, capitalize capitalizes only the first letter of each word. Figure 6-24 illustrates each of these settings in a variety of ways:

h1 {text-transform: capitalize;}
strong {text-transform: uppercase;}
p.cummings {text-transform: lowercase;}
p.raw {text-transform: none;}

<h1>The heading-one at the beginninG</h1>
<p>
By default, text is displayed in the capitalization it has in the source 
document, but <strong>it is possible to change this</strong> using 
the property 'text-transform'.
</p>
<p class="cummings">
For example, one could Create TEXT such as might have been Written by 
the late Poet e.e.cummings.
</p>
<p class="raw">
If you feel the need to Explicitly Declare the transformation of text
to be 'none', that can be done as well.
</p>
Various kinds of text transformation

Figure 6-24. Various kinds of text transformation

Different user agents may have different ways of deciding where words begin and, as a result, which letters are capitalized. ...

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