CSS: Formatting Text

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monospaced combination

"Courier New", Courier, monospace

fantasy combination

"Marker Felt", "Comic Sans MS", fantasy

serif combination

"Times New Roman", Times, serif

white: hexadecimal notation

#FFFFFF (or #FFF)

typical default font size

16px or medium

sans-serif combination

Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif

text-decoration: underline overline;

adds a line over and under the text

text-decoration: underline;

adds a line under the text

text-decoration

adds various enhancements to text

serif fonts

best for long passages of text

text-transform: capitalize;

capitalizes the first letter of each word

text-decoration: line-through;

draws a line through the center of the text

quotation marks

enclose font names composed of more than one word

<h1> bold

h1 {font-weight: bold;}

<h1> no bold

h1 {font-weight: normal;}

font-style

lets you italicize text or not

font-weight

lets you make text bold or not

text-transform: uppercase;

makes all letters uppercase

text-transform: lowercase;

makes all text lowercase

hexadecimal notation

most common color system used by Web designers

fantasy fonts

not used heavily in Web design

sans-serif fonts

often used for headlines

monospaced fonts

often used to display computer code

fonts must be available

on the client computer

<p> italicized

p {font-style: italic;}

<p> remove italics

p {font-style: normal;}

%

percentage of inherited size

px

pixels

four (common) ways to specify font sizes

px, %, em and keywords

text-decoration: none;

removes inherited text decoration (e.g., a link)

text-transform: none;

removes inherited text transformation

white: RGB

rgb(255,255,255) or rgb(100%,100%,100%)

five font families

sans-serif, serif, monospace, cursive and fantasy

font-variant: small-caps;

sets type as small-caps

RGB

specifies red, green, blue values using % or 0 - 255

best practices for font size specification

specify body font size via keyword; specify all other elements relative to body font

em

times larger/smaller than inherited size

font-family

used to specify a list of preferred font families

color

used to specify font color

font-size

used to specify font size

keywords

xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large and xx-large


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