More CSS text properties

Listen, folks.
The CSS properties are never-ending.

Let me show you a few more.

What if I want to change

the spacing between the lines
in my song lyrics?

I could use the `line-height` property,

and specify something like 15px.

Or maybe better would be 1.5em,
that makes the line height

150 percent of whatever the text size was.

What if I want my song lyrics to be
center-aligned?

I could use the `text-align` property,
and specifiy `center`.

I could also change it
to `right`, or `justified`,

though I think that would look a bit odd.

What if I want to underline
my main paragraph?

I could use the
`text-decoration` property

and specify `underline`.

What if I want to remove the underline
from my links,

like that link to Wikipedia?

Well, the browser has
a default set of styles

that it applies to everything.

Like `text-decoration: underline`
for links.

But we can use CSS to override
the browser's default styles,

and say `text-decoration: none`.

Just add this rule here:
a { text-decoration: none; }

And you see now
it's no longer underlined.

But we should be careful when we do that,

because the defaults
are usually picked for a reason.

If links aren't underlined,
how will people know that they're links?

What if they never click them because
they think they're just normal text?

If we do remove that underline,
we should be making sure

that the links look
significantly different in some other way.

Otherwise, we'll make users sad.

And sad users make me sad.

They should make you sad, too.

I could tell you
about text properties all day.

But I won't, because
we have so much more to cover.

There are hundreds of CSS properties.

And browsers are adding more
every year.

I probably won't ever tell you
about all of them.

But hopefully I can tell you enough
to get you excited.

And then if you're wondering
if there's a CSS property for some style

and it's not in our documentation here,

you can just visit
your local search engine and find out.

For example, if you're wondering

if there's a way
to add a drop-shadow to your text,

just search "CSS text shadow"
on the Internet,

and you'll see lots of results.

Generally, being able
to search the Internet

for answers to your questions

is a really important skill
for a web developer.

Because so many people
have had the same questions as you,

and 99.9 percent of the time,
the answer is out there.

You just have to get good at finding it.