Chapter 10. Text Colors and Effects

<feature><title>What You’ll Learn in This Hour:</title>

  • 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 enables you to change the case of your letters

  • How to control the spaces between letters and words

  • How to control line breaks and duplicate the HTML <pre> and <nobr> tags

  • How to adjust the spacing between lines

Use of Cascading Style Sheets can transform a plain, boring page of text into a visual treat, without even any graphics. The CSS specifications define ways to enhance your textual content visually, from changing the colors to adding strikethrough lines. In addition, ...

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