Manipulating Text using CSS

This tutorial will teach you how to manipulate text using CSS properties. You can set following text properties of an element:

• The color property is used to set the color of a text.
• The direction property is used to set the text direction.
• The letter-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the letters that make up a word.
• The word-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the words of a sentence.
• The text-indent property is used to indent the text of a paragraph.
• The text-align property is used to align the text of a document.
• The text-decoration property is used to underline, overline, and strikethrough text.
• The text-transform property is used to capitalize text or convert text to uppercase or lowercase letters.
• The white-space property is used to control the flow and formatting of text.
• The text-shadow property is used to set the text shadow around a text.

Set the text color:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to set the text color. Possible value could be any color name in any valid format.

<p style="color:red;"> This text will be written in red. </p>

This will produce following result:

This text will be written in red.

Set the text direction :

Following is the example which demonstrates how to set the direction of a text. Possible values are ltr or rtl.

<p style="direction:rtl;"> This text will be renedered from right to left </p>

This will produce following result:

This text will be renedered from right to left

Set the space between characters:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to set the space between characters. Possible values are normal or a number specifying space..

<p style="letter-spacing:5px;"> This text is having space between letters. </p>

This will produce following result:

This text is having space between letters.

Set the space between words:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to set the space between words. Possible values are normal or a number specifying space..

<p style="word-spacing:5px;"> This text is having space between words. </p>

This will produce following result:

This text is having space between words.

Set the text indent:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to indent the first line of a paragraph. Possible values are % or a number specifying indent space..

<p style="text-indent:1cm;"> This text will have first line indented by 1cm and this line will remain at its actual position this is done by CSS text-indent property. </p>

This will produce following result:

This text will have first line indented by 1cm and this line will remain at its actual position this is done by CSS text-indent property.

Set the text alignment:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to align a text. Possible values are left, right, center, justify..

<p style="text-align:right;"> This will be right aligned. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"> This will be center aligned. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"> This will be left aligned. </p>

This will produce following result:

This will be right aligned. This will be center aligned. This will be left aligned.

Decorating the text:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to decorate a text. Possible values are none, underline, overline, line-through, blink..

<p style="text-decoration:underline;"> This will be underlined </p> <p style="text-decoration:line-through;"> This will be striked through. </p> <p style="text-decoration:overline;"> This will have a over line. </p> <p style="text-decoration:blink;"> This text will have blinking effect </p>

This will produce following result:

This will be underlined This will be striked through. This will have a over line. This text will have blinking effect

Set the text cases:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to set the cases for a text. Possible values are none, capitalize, uppercase, lowercase..

<p style="text-transform:capitalize;"> This will be capitalized </p> <p style="text-transform:uppercase;"> This will be in uppercase </p> <p style="text-transform:lowercase;"> This will be in lowercase </p>

This will produce following result:

This will be capitalized This will be in uppercase This will be in lowercase

Set the white space between text:

Following is the example which demonstrates how white space inside an element is handled. Possible values are normal, pre, nowrap.

<p style="white-space:pre;">This text has a line break and the white-space pre setting tells the browser to honor it just like the HTML pre tag.</p>

This will produce following result:

This text has a line break and the white-space pre setting tells the browser to honor it just like the HTML pre tag.

Set the text shadow:

Following is the example which demonstrates how to set the shadow around a text. This may not be supported by all the browsers.

<p style="text-shadow:4px 4px 8px blue;"> If your browser supports the CSS text-shadow property, this text will have a blue shadow.</p>

This will produce following result:

If your browser supports the CSS text-shadow property, this text will have a blue shadow.