Font and text

The following cascading style sheet properties apply to font styles and text rendering.

Properties

  • direction   Sets the reading order of the object.

  • font   Sets a combination of separate font properties of the object.

  • font-family   Sets the name of the font used for text in the object.

  • font-size   Sets a value that indicates the font size used for text in the object.

  • font-style   Sets the font style of the object as italic, normal, or oblique.

  • font-variant   Sets whether the text of the object is in small uppercase letters.

  • font-weight   Sets the weight of the font of the object.

  • letter-spacing   Sets the amount of additional space between letters in the object.

  • line-height   Sets the distance between lines in the object.

  • text-align   Sets whether the text in the object is left-aligned, right-aligned, centered, or justified.

  • text-decoration   Sets a value that indicates whether the text in the object has blink, line-through, overline, or underline decorations.

  • text-indent   Sets the indentation of the first line of text in the object.

  • text-transform   Sets the rendering of the text in the object.

  • unicode-bidi   Sets the level of embedding with respect to the bidirectional (right-to-left) algorithm.

  • vertical-align   Sets the vertical alignment of the object.

  • white-space   Sets a value that indicates whether lines are automatically broken inside the object.

  • word-spacing   Sets the amount of additional space between words in the object.

See also

Concepts

Cascading style sheet reference
Properties by category
Properties by name

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