How do I… Control text properties with CSS?
CSS text properties
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CSS lets you exert tremendous control over the visual aspects of your Web pages, adjusting page height and width, background colors and images, borders, and typeface. None of these, however, are particularly new; all of these properties can just as easily be manipulated using standard HTML.
However, CSS also includes some innovative new properties for controlling page text; properties which were previously not accessible through standard HTML elements. These properties allow you to centralize control over the alignment, spacing, decoration, line height, and case of a page or text.