CSS Text: Styling Your Words

This book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of CSS Text, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it’s released. Why wait, when you can start manipulating text on your pages right away?

• Use properties for indenting and aligning lines of text
• Control the leading between lines of text beyond the font’s size
• Change the amount of space between words and individual characters
• Add underlines, overlines, strike-throughs, shadows, and other effects
• Instruct browsers to prioritize speed, legibility, or geometric precision when rendering text
• Learn how and when to suppress automatic hyphenation
• Determine the direction that text flows, including left-to-right and top-to-bottom