How To Style Your Text With CSS by Hilco van der Meer
Styling text with CSS is really simple. We can define colors, underline it,
make it bold, define the font etc etc.
We will start with some basics.
First we define the html where we will be working with.
This is the text
1. Colorize your text
We can select the P tag and add some styles to it. p { color:red; }
Now our text will turn red. You can define any color code your want or choose
one of the 16 standard color names. The color names are: aqua, black, blue,
fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal,
white and yellow.
2. Define the size of your text p { font-size:12px; }
You can define any font-size you want, 145 pixels is not a problem. That is,
technically speaking.
3. Make the text bold or Italic You can use the font-style property to create
these effects.
Bold: p { font-weight:bold; }
Italic p { font-style:italic; }
4. Overline, Underline, strike-through and none
The text-decoration property is useful to create the underline and the other
effects we need. p { text-decoration:underline; text-decoration:line-through;
text-decoration:overline; text-decoration:none; }
On default, the text doesn't have any lines at all. Except for the link. You
can remove the underline by using the text-decoration:none; setting.
You see, it's quite easy to style your text using CSS. And you can do it all in
a separate stylesheet!
About the Author
Hilco van der Meer is known as the author of the How To Master CSS Course and is
a web developer for over 5 years now. His blog can be found at
http://www.DutchDesign.org. The course contains a Real-Time CSS Editor
to practice in real-time with the CSS codes, a complete step-by-step guide and
the informative Training Videos. For more information you can visit:
http://www.HowToMasterCSS.com
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