Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Chapter 18. Font and Text Properties

Cascading Style Sheets offer a degree of control over text formatting that approaches desktop publishing. This certainly comes as a relief after years of misusing HTML markup for presentation purposes. Controls for specifying fonts and text formatting are undeniably the most popular use of style sheets and they are the properties that browsers support the most reliably.

This chapter discusses the challenges of typography on the Web and introduces the following text-related CSS 2 properties:

font-family	text-decoration	letter-spacing
font-size	text-transform	word-spacing
font-weight	line-height	white-space
font-style	text-indent	direction
font-variant	text-align	unicode-bidi
font	vertical-align

Tip

Text color is discussed in the "Foreground Color" section of Chapter 20.