Transforming and Varying Text
You can style the case of text and vary its font using two different properties.To transform case, you use the text-TRansform property and a value of capitalize, uppercase, lowercase, or none.To vary text, you use the font-variant property and a value of small-caps or normal (which is the default).Example 9-6 shows a document employing transformation and variants.
Example 9-6. Transforming and varying text with CSS
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You can see how text-TRansform and font-variant work in Figure 9-13.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>working with style</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: black;}
h1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;
font-variant: small-caps;}
h2 {font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: #999; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;text-transform: lowercase;}
.accent {font-weight: 700; color: red; text-transform: uppercase;}
p {font-size: 16px; text-transform: capitalize;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The Black Cat</h1>
<h2>By Edgar Allen Poe</h2>
<p>I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not
uncongenial with my own. Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she
lost no opportunity of procuring those of the <span class="accent">most</span>
agreeable kind. We had birds, gold fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey,
and a cat.</p>
<p>This latter was a <span class="accent">remarkably</span> large and beautiful animal,entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree. In speaking of his intelligence,
my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion
to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.</p>
<p>Pluto - this was the cat's name - was my <span class="accent">favorite</span> pet andplaymate. I alone fed him, and he attended me wherever I went about the house. It was even
with difficulty that I could prevent him from following me through the streets.</p>
</body>
</html>
Figure 9-13. Transforming and varying text.
