CSS

How to indent text with CSS

Sometimes you need to indent text in your web page. In this case you can apply a rule to the container that sets a  padding-left value. You can follow this CSS ASP.NET tutorial and to use the next two files to test this:

 

File test.css

.indent {

padding-left: 40px;

}

 

File test.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”

“https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

<html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” …

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How to specify horizontal rule style with CSS

When your web site includes horizontal rules you can use CSS code to change their color, height and width. In this case for example the CSS code is the following:

File test.css

hr {

border: none;

background-color: #E6E6E6;

color: #000000;

height: 2px;

width: 70%;

}

You can use the next file to test:

 

File test.html

 

<!DOCTYPE html …

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How to change bullets on list items with CSS

You can use the CSS list-style-type property when you need to specify the style of bullets used in your lists. In the next test file one of the possible options is used.

File test.css

ul {

list-style-type: circle;

}

Note: You can use also one of the following values:

– disc

– decimal

– decimal-leading-zero

– square

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How to change text to all-capitals with CSS

You can use the CSS text-transform property when you need to change text to all-capitals.

File test.css

.uppercase

{

text-transform: uppercase;

}

You can use the next file to test:

File test.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”

“https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

<html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” lang=”en-US”>

<head>

<title>How to change text to all-capitals with CSS</title>

<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />

<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”test.css” />

</head>

<body>

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How to justify text with CSS

When you want to justify text you have to alter the spacing between the words so that both the right and left margins are straight. You can use CSS to create this effect.

File test.css

p {

text-align: justify;

font: 14px Arial, Helvetica,Geneva ,Verdana, sans-serif;

line-height: 1.5;

}

Other values for text-align are:

– right – aligns …

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How to change the line-height on my text with CSS

You can use the CSS line-height property when the default space between lines of text box looks a little narrow. The next CSS code shows this.

File test.css
p {

font: 16px Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;

line-height: 2.0;

}

Note: You can specify the line-height using standard CSS units of measurement, such as ems or pixels, but doing …

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How to highlight text on the page without using font tags with CSS

You can create a class for the highlighting style and apply it by wrapping the highlighted text with <span> tags that apply the class:

1. You can create a CSS .hilite class.

File test.css

body {

font: 1em

Arial, Helvetica,Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;

}

.hilite {

background-color: #FFFFCC;

color: #B24422;

}

2. You can apply the class:

File test.html …

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How to underline headings with CSS

There are two possible solutions:

1. You can use the text-decoration property. This method allows you to underline the text in same color as the text itself. In this case you can use the following code.

File Test.css

h2 {

font: …

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How to add a background color to a heading with CSS

You can add a background color to any element, including a heading.  You can use the next CSS rule for all level two headings in a document:

File test.css

h2 {

background-color: #F4C90A;

color: #0C0C0D;

font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, Geneva,Verdana, sans-serif;

padding: 2px;

}

Note: You can use the padding to adjust the space between …

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