CSS text-transform Property

February 10, 2021 12:37 pm IST

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CSS text-transform Property

CSS text-transform property specifies how to capitalize an element's text.

Example

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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <style> p:nth-child(3){ text-transform: none; } p:nth-child(5){ text-transform: capitalize; } p:nth-child(7){ text-transform: uppercase; } p:nth-child(9){ text-transform: lowercase; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>CSS text-transform Property</h1> <h2>text-transform: none;</h2> <p>This is a sentence.</p> <h2>text-transform: capitalize;</h2> <p>This is a sentence.</p> <h2>text-transform: uppercase;</h2> <p>This is a sentence.</p> <h2>text-transform: lowercase;</h2> <p>This is a sentence.</p> </body> </html>

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Syntax

Using CSS

element{ text-transform: uppercase; }

Using Javascript

object.style.textTransform="uppercase";

Animatable

No, text-transform property is not animatable. CSS Animatable Properties Reference.

Default Value

Default value for CSS text-transform property is none.

Property Value

The following table provides a list of values for CSS text-transform property.

Value	Explanation
none	Prevents the case of all characters from being changed.
capitalize	Converts the first character of each word to uppercase.
uppercase	Converts all characters to uppercase.
lowercase	Converts all characters to lowercase.

Using JavaScript

In the following example, we will demonstrate how to change the CSS text-transform property of an element using JavaScript.

Example

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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <body> <h1>CSS text-transform Property</h1> <p>This is a sentence</p> <button onclick="myFunction()">Click Me</button> <script> var x = document.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]; function myFunction(){ x.style.textTransform = "uppercase"; } </script> </body> </html>

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