AtoZ CSS Screencast: Text and Typography

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Text is everywhere. Without it, the web wouldn’t be such a useful place.

There are many different CSS properties for styling text and in this video, we’ll cover most of them in some way shape or form.

There’s quite a few, so we best get started! As there are so many things to cover, this episode will demonstrate some of them, but in part just act as an overview of the tools in the box.

Text Properties

There are many CSS properties that control the visual appearance of text - but only seven of them actually start with the word “text”.

Those are:

• text-align
• text-decoration
• text-indent
• text-overflow
• text-rendering
• text-shadow
• text-transform

We looked at text-align in some depth in "Episode 10: justify"; it’s used to control the alignment of text on the screen and is often set to left, right or center.

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