CSS Text: Styling Your Words

by Eric A. Meyer

As a web designer, you probably spend more time working with text than any other element. With this concise guide, you’ll learn CSS3 properties for changing the appearance of text without altering the font face—including horizontal and vertical alignment, text transformation, word and letter spacing, text wrapping, and the direction of text flow.

This book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of 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 textControl the leading between lines of text beyond the font’s sizeChange the amount of space between words and individual charactersAdd underlines, overlines, strike-throughs, shadows, and other effectsInstruct browsers to prioritize speed, legibility, or geometric precision when rendering textLearn how and when to suppress automatic hyphenationDetermine the direction that text flows, including left-to-right and top-to-bottom

Genres: Technology

56 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2013

About the author

Eric A. Meyer is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technique for managing how HTML is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use. Eric currently works for Igalia.

Reviews

[Eugene Fedorenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been doing front-end development for 15 years and used to read W3C specifications, but Eric Meyer's books are so much better. They are like specifications written for humans, but just as complete. Nobody knows CSS, its history and tiny nuances of browser implementations as well as he does. I think his whole series on CSS 3 modules is a must read for anyone taking their work seriously.