HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Eighth Edition

10. Formatting Text with Styles

In This Chapter

Before and After

Choosing a Font Family

Specifying Alternate Fonts

Creating Italics

Applying Bold Formatting

Setting the Font Size

Setting the Line Height

Setting All Font Values at Once

Setting the Color

Setting the Background

Controlling Spacing

Adding Indents

Aligning Text

Changing the Text Case

Using Small Caps

Decorating Text

Setting Whitespace Properties

With CSS, you can change the font, size, weight, slant, line height, foreground and background, spacing, and alignment of text. You can decide whether text should be underlined or struck through, and you can convert it to all uppercase, all lowercase, or small caps. And you can apply those changes to an entire page or an entire site in just ...