1063999 - Guide to text, text formatting and styling, and text rendering on the Web

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Learning Area, defect, P5)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: New Documentation
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

We currently don't really have a good overall guide to how to go about using the various font and text styling features offered by HTML and CSS. We should have a guide to use of font, font-weight, font-family, etc. Also covered should be things like text-transform, letter-spacing, font-kerning, etc. A good, thorough, guide to controlling text and text appearance.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I think we have it:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn/CSS/Basic_text_styling_in_CSS

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

That article needs to be fleshed out a little; there should be live samples in there, along with screenshots of what things should look like (probably). In some cases there should be examples of the gradual effect of certain types of changes as the values change.

I don't think that page is quite as thorough as it could be. Also, it should be renamed; "Basic text styling" implies that it's not complete but only covers the simple parts of a larger topic area.

Comment 3

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

We have an entire module that does this now:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Styling_text

So I think we can close this bug now.