CSS Properties

Property Description Example
color The color CSS property sets the foreground color value of an element's text and text decorations. color: rebeccapurple;
background-color The background-color CSS property sets the background color of an element. background-color: brown;
font-family The font-family allows you to specify a font (or list of fonts) for the browser to apply to the selected elements font-family: arial;
font-size The font-size property can take values measured in px, em, rem and percentages and changes the size of text font-size: 12px;
font-style The font-style is used t oturn italic text on or off. font-style: italic;
text-transform The text-transform allows you to set your font to be transformed. Values include: none, uppercase, lowercase, capitalize, full-width text-transform: uppercase;
text-decoration The text-decoration Sets/unsets text decorations on fonts (you'll mainly use this to unset the default underline on links when styling them). text-decoration: overline;
text-shadow The text-shadow applies a drop shadow to the text and takes 4 values. text-shadow: 4px 4px 5px red
text-align The text-align property is used to control how test is aligned within its containing box. text-align: center;
line-height The line-height property sets teh height of each line of text. line-height 1.6;
letter-spacing and word-spacing The letter-spacing and word-spacing allow you to set the spacing between letters and words in your text. letter-spacing: 4px;
text-overflow The text-overflow sets how hidden overflow content is signaled to users. It can be clipped, display an ellipsis ('...') or disaply a custom string. text-overflow: clip;