Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

text-transform — NN 4 IE 4 CSS 1

Synopsis

Inherited: Yes

Controls the capitalization of the element’s text. When a value other than none is assigned to this attribute, the cases of all letters in the source text are arranged by the style sheet, overriding the case of the source text characters.

CSS Syntax

text-transform: caseType | none

JavaScript Equivalent

textTransform

Value

A value of none allows the case of the source text to be rendered as-is. Other available constant values are: capitalize | lowercase | uppercase. A value of capitalize sets the first character of every word to uppercase. Values lowercase and uppercase render all characters of the element text in their respective cases.

Initial Value

none

Example

H2 {text-transform: capitalize}

Applies To

All elements.

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.all.elementID.style.textTransform