XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Text Properties

Text properties cover those aspects of text formatting other than what can be adjusted merely by changing the font. These include how far the text is indented, how the paragraph is aligned, and so forth. The most common of these properties include:

text-indent

The text-indent property specifies how far in to indent the first line of the block. (Indents of all lines are generally applied via margin properties.) Hanging indents can be specified by making text-indent negative. This property only applies to block-level elements. For example, this style rule indents the first line of the story element by 0.5 inches from the left side:

story { text-indent: 0.5in }

text-align

The text-align property can be set to left, right, center, or justify to align the text with the left edge of the block or the right edge of the block, to center the text in the block, or to spread the text out across the block. This property only applies to block-level elements.

text-decoration

The text-decoration property can be set to underline, overline, line-through, or blink to produce the obvious effects. Note, however, that the CSS specification specifically allows browsers to ignore the request to make elements blink. This is a good thing.

text-transform

The text-transform property has three main values: capitalize, uppercase, and lowercase. Uppercase changes all the text to capital letters LIKE THIS. Lowercase changes all the text to lowercase letters like this. Capitalize simply uppercases the ...