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Chapter 9. Styling Text

Now that you have a taste of what CSS can do, you'll take it further and begin to style your text. Historically, CSS has been used more to style text than just about anything, largely because of good support for much of the text-related styles that were in CSS 1.0. Some new options have appeared since then, giving you even more control over the way you manage text for web documents. The basic principles for how text is styled in CSS come from traditional typography, although limitations based on both CSS and browser support have prevented certain growth in the area of web-based type.

A warning from the start, though: Working with fonts can be complicated. First, you must understand that, in terms of available fonts for text-based type on the Web, there's dependence upon a person's operating system and installed font base. If a specific font is not installed on someone's machine, that person will

not be able to view the font. The same limitation existed for presentationa183, too, and not much has changed since then. Then there is a major browser flaw in font sizing that makes using font sizes a real pain. Over these concerns you are essentially powerless, except in what you can learn in terms of how to manage them. So bear with me through the details, okay?