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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

by Matthew MacDonald
May 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
584 pages
17h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Text Alignment and Spacing

CSS includes a great many properties that let you control how text appears on a web page. If you ever wondered how to indent paragraphs, space out lines, or center a title, these are the tools you need.

Table 6-2 has the details on all your alignment options.

Table 6-2. Alignment and spacing properties.

Property

Description

Common Values

Can Be Inherited?

text-align

Lines up text on one or both edges of a page.

left, right, center, justify.

Yes

text-indent

Indents the first line of text (typically in a paragraph).

A pixel value (indicating the amount to indent) or percentage of the width of the containing element.

Yes

margin

Sets the spacing around the outside of a block element (HTML Elements for Basic Text). To change the margin on just one side, use the similar properties marginbottom, margin-left, marginright, and margin-top.

A pixel value or percentage indicating the amount of space to add around the element.

No

padding

Sets the spacing around the inside of a block element. Has the same effect as “margin,” unless you have an element with a border or background color.

A pixel value or percentage indicating the amount of space to add around the element.

No

wordspacing

Sets the space between words

A pixel value or percentage.

Yes

letterspacing

Sets the space between letters.

A pixel value or percentage.

Yes

line-height

Sets the space between lines.

A pixel value or percentage. You can also use a multiple (for example, use 2 for double-spacing).

Yes

white-space

Tells the browser how to ...

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