If you are interested to learn about the CSS Box model
CSS has a lot of properties for formatting text.
TEXT FORMATTING
This text is styled with some of the text formatting properties. The heading uses the text-align, text-transform, and color properties. The paragraph is indented, aligned, and the space between characters is specified.
Text Color
The color
property is used to set the color of the text. The color is specified by:
- a color name – like “red”
- a HEX value – like “#ff0000”
- an RGB value – like “rgb(255,0,0)”
The default text color for a page is defined in the body selector.
Example
body { color: blue; } h1 { color: green; }
Text Color and Background Color
In this example, we define both the background-color
property and the color
property:
Example
body { background-color: lightgrey; color: blue; } h1 { background-color: black; color: white; } div { background-color: blue; color: white; }
Important: High contrast is very important for people with vision problems. So, always ensure that the contrast between the text color and the background color (or background image) is good!
The CSS Text Color Property
Property | Description |
---|---|
color | Specifies the color of text |
Text Alignment and Text Direction
In this chapter you will learn about the following properties:
text-align
text-align-last
direction
unicode-bidi
vertical-align
Text Alignment
The text-align
property is used to set the horizontal alignment of a text. A text can be left or right aligned, centered, or justified.
The following example shows center aligned, and left and right aligned text (left alignment is default if text direction is left-to-right, and right alignment is default if text direction is right-to-left):
Example
h1 { text-align: center; } h2 { text-align: left; } h3 { text-align: right; }
When the text-align
property is set to “justify”, each line is stretched so that every line has equal width, and the left and right margins are straight (like in magazines and newspapers):
Example
div { text-align: justify; }
Text Align Last
The text-align-last
property specifies how to align the last line of a text.
Example
Align the last line of text in three <p> elements:
p.a { text-align-last: right; } p.b { text-align-last: center; } p.c { text-align-last: justify; }
Text Direction
The direction
and unicode-bidi
properties can be used to change the text direction of an element:
Example
p { direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; }
Vertical Alignment
The vertical-align
property sets the vertical alignment of an element.
Example
Set the vertical alignment of an image in a text:
img.a { vertical-align: baseline; } img.b { vertical-align: text-top; } img.c { vertical-align: text-bottom; } img.d { vertical-align: sub; } img.e { vertical-align: super; }
The CSS Text Alignment/Direction Properties
Property | Description |
---|---|
direction | Specifies the text direction/writing direction |
text-align | Specifies the horizontal alignment of text |
text-align-last | Specifies how to align the last line of a text |
unicode-bidi | Used together with the direction property to set or return whether the text should be overridden to support multiple languages in the same document |
vertical-align | Sets the vertical alignment of an element |