Bringing Out The Decorations - Style Sheets

The concluding part of this tutorial explores some of the CSS properties related to text alignment, spacing and positioning, together with a look at absolute and relative positioning, z-index stacking, and borders and padding.

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By: icarus, (c) Melonfire

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October 04, 2000

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In addition to the numerous font properties discussed in the first part of this series, CSS also allows you tremendous control over the spacing, alignment and appearance of your text.

The "text-decoration" property allows you to emphasize text by putting a line under, over and through it. Take a look:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
.question {text-decoration: underline} 
/* display a line under text */
.answer {text-decoration: overline} /* display 
a line over text */
.repeat {text-decoration: line-through} /* display a line 
through text */
.no-imagination {text-decoration: blink; font-weight: bolder} 
/* blink text
*/
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P CLASS="question">
Q. 
How many psychoanalysts does it take to change a light bulb?
<P CLASS="answer">
A. 
How many do you think it takes?
<P CLASS="repeat">
Q. How many psychoanalysts 
does it take to change a light bulb?
<P CLASS="repeat">
A. How many do you 
think it takes?
<P CLASS="no-imagination">
Why are you repeating jokes, you 
unimaginative creep?
</BODY>
</HTML>

Note that the "blink" keyword only works in Netscape Navigator. One of the most common uses of the "text-decorate" property is to underline links when the mouse pointer moves over them, in combination with the A:hover pseudo-class (you remember pseudo-classes, don't you?). Here's how:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
A {text-decoration: none}
A:hover 
{text-decoration: underline}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<A HREF="#">This 
is a link</A>. Hooray!
</BODY>
</HTML>

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