CSS Text Property

Introduction

The text property is a shorthand property in CSS that allows you to set multiple text-related properties in a single declaration. It allows you to control the appearance and formatting of text on a web page, such as font size, font family, font style, text alignment, and text decoration.

Basic Usage

To use the text property, you specify the values for the text-related properties you want to set, separated by spaces. Here is an example of using the text property to set the font size, font family, and font style of an element:

.my-element {
  text: 16px Arial italic;
}

In the example above, we are setting the font size of the .my-element class to 16 pixels, the font family to Arial, and the font style to italic.

Order of Values

The order of the values you specify for the text property is important. The first value is always the font size, followed by the font family, and then the other text-related properties in the following order:

1. font style
2. font weight
3. font variant
4. font stretch
5. font size-adjust
6. font feature-settings
7. font language-override
8. text-decoration-line
9. text-decoration-style
10. text-decoration-color
11. text-transform
12. text-orientation
13. text-combine-upright
14. text-indent
15. text-align-last
16. line-height
17. letter-spacing
18. word-spacing
19. text-decoration
20. text-emphasis-style
21. text-emphasis-color
22. text-emphasis-position
23. text-emphasis
24. text-shadow
25. text-outline
26. text-wrap
27. text-overflow
28. text-overflow-ellipsis
29. text-overflow-mode
30. white-space
31. word-break
32. word-wrap
33. hyphens
34. tab-size
35. orphans
36. widows
37. font-kerning
38. font-variant-ligatures
39. text-align
40. text-justify

Here is an example of using the text property to set multiple values in the correct order:

.my-element {
  text: 16px Arial italic normal normal normal none underline solid #333 none uppercase normal none none none none