Web Design with HTML and CSS

Lesson 6, Formatting Text with CSS 113

What you’ll learn in

this lesson:

• Using the font-family
  property


• Setting the size of
  your text


• Working with the
  em measurement


• Changing text properties


• Using HTML lists

Formatting Text with CSS

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to control the appearance of text on

your web pages using CSS styling.

Starting up

You will work with several fi les from the web06lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure you have
loaded the weblessons folder onto your hard-drive from http://www.digitalclassroombooks.com/webdesign.
See “Loading lesson fi les” in the Starting Up section of this book.

See Lesson 6 in action!

Use the accompanying video to gain a better understanding of how to use some of

the features shown in this lesson. You can fi nd the video tutorial for this lesson at

http://www.digitalclassroombooks.com using the URL provided when you registered your book.

Although this lesson uses the TextWrangler text editor to create the markup, you can use any of

the text editors covered in Lesson 3 and get the same results.

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Lesson 6