Hour Nine: Text Colors and Effects
Use of Cascading Style Sheets can transform a plain, boring page of text into a visual treat, without even using any graphics to do so. The CSS specifications define ways to visually enhance your textual content, from changing the colors to adding drop shadows.
In this hour, you'll learn
- Additional ways to specify the color of text
- How to use color effectively in Web design
- How to add or remove underlines from your text
- How to add lines through or over your text
- Which CSS property allows you to change the case of your letters
- How to do text shadows in CSS, and which browsers support them
Sample Code
You can download the sample code from each hour as one package or individual files.
- Download all [1K tar.gz file]
- Listing 9.1 [HTML]
- text-transform example
- text-shadow example
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