Text properties

text-align

Sets justification to the left or right margin or the centre of the page.

left
center
right
justify
string

{text-align: right}

text-decoration

Highlights text.

none
underline
overline
line-through
blink

{text-decoration: underline}

text-indent

Sets distance from left margin for the first line of text.

millimetres (mm)
centimetres (cm)
inches (in)
points (pt)
picas (pc)
pixels (px)
height of font (em)
height of letter x (ex)
percentage (%)

{text-indent: 0.5in}

text-shadow

Creates a drop-shadow

{ text-shadow: 3px 3px 5px red }

text-transform

Changes the case of text

capitalise
uppercase
lowercase
none

{text-transform:lowercase;}

letter-spacing

Sets the amount of white space between letters

normal
length

{letter-spacing:2pt; }

line-height

Sets the distance between baselines.

normal
number
millimetres (mm)
centimetres (cm)
inches (in)
points (pt)
picas (pc)
pixels (px)
height of font (em)
height of letter x (ex)
percentage (%)

{line-height: 24pt}

vertical-align

Sets the vertical alignment of the baseline

baseline
sub
super
top
middle
bottom
text-top
text-bottom

{vertical-align:sub;}

whitespace

Sets how white space appears

normal
pre
nowrap

{ whitespace:pre;}

word-spacing

Sets the amount of white space between words

millimetres (mm)
centimetres (cm)
inches (in)
points (pt)
picas (pc)
pixels (px)
height of font (em)
height of letter x (ex)
percentage (%)

{word-spacing:0.5em;}