CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition (70 page)

This sets the font to use an italic, oblique, or normal
font face. Italic text is generally defined as a separate face within the font
family. It is theoretically possible for a user agent to compute a slanted font face
from the normal face.

This property is basically used to define small-caps text. It is theoretically
possible for a user agent to compute a small-caps font face from the normal face.

This property sets the font weight used in rendering an element's text. The
numeric value
400
is equivalent to the keyword
normal
, and
700
is equivalent to
bold
. Each numeric
value must be at least as light as the next lowest number and at least as heavy as
the next highest number.

This defines the height of
an element's content
area, outside of which padding, borders, and margins are added. This property is
ignored for inline nonreplaced elements. Negative length and percentage values are
not permitted.

This property defines the offset between the left outer margin edge of a
positioned element and the left edge of its containing block.

This defines the amount of whitespace to be inserted between the character boxes
of text. Since character glyphs are typically narrower than their character boxes,
length values create a modifier to the usual spacing between letters. Thus,
normal
is synonymous with
0
. Negative length values are permitted and will cause letters to bunch
closer together.

This property influences
the layout of line boxes. When applied to a block-level element, it defines the
minimum distance between baselines within that element, but not the maximum. The
difference between the computed values of
line-height
and
font-size
(called
"leading" in CSS) is split in half and added to the top and bottom of each piece of
content in a line of text. The shortest box that can enclose all of those pieces of
content is the line box. A raw number value assigns a scaling factor, which is
inherited instead of a computed value. Negative values are not permitted.

This is a shorthand property that condenses all the other list-style properties.
Because it applies to any element that has a
display
of
list-item
, it will apply
only to
li
elements in ordinary HTML and XHTML,
although it can be applied to any element and inherited by
list-item
elements.

This specifies an image to be used as the marker on an ordered or unordered list
item. The placement of the image with respect to the content of the list item can be
broadly controlled using
list-style-position
.

This property is
used to declare the position of the list marker with respect to the content of the
list item. Outside markers are placed some distance from the border edge of the list
item, but the distance is not defined in CSS. Inside markers are treated as though
they were an inline element inserted at the beginning of the list item's content.

This is used to declare the type of marker system to be used in the presentation
of a list.

This shorthand property sets the width of the
overall margin for an element or sets the widths of each individual side margin.
Vertically adjacent margins of
block-level elements are collapsed, whereas inline
elements effectively do not take top and bottom margins. The left and right margins
of inline elements do not collapse, nor do margins on floated elements. Negative
margin values are permitted, but use them with caution.