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Controlling text on screen

Having pixel precision of your text on screen can be a fiddly task, especially across a complex site where there are data tables, forms and lists etc. Here are some of the css rules that can help you along the way to styling and controlling your text.

CSS Rules (not exhaustive):

  • font-family (sans-serif;)
  • font-style (italic; oblique; normal;)
  • font-variant (italic; normal;)
  • font-weight (normal; bold; bolder; lighter; 100;)
  • font-stretch (normal; wider; narrower; ultra-condensed;)
  • font-size (keywords; length; percentage;)
  • text-indent (length; percentage;)
  • text-align (left; right; center; justify;)
  • text-decoration (none; underline; overline;)
  • letter-spacing (normal; length;)
  • word-spacing (normal; length;)
  • text-transform (capitalize; uppercase; lowercase; none;)

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Yahoo! - gold dust

After browsing through my popular reads .. I came across some links to Yahoo’s latest contribution to the rest of us web ordinaries…

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