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normal font.
italic
Specifies a font that is classified as ’italic’ in the UA’s font database, or, if
that is not available, one labeled ’oblique’. Fonts with Italic, Cursive, or
Kursiv in their names will typically be labeled ’italic’.
Example(s):
In this example, normal text in an H1, H2, or H3 element will be displayed with
an italic font. However, emphasized text (EM) within an H1 will appear in a
normal face.
H1, H2, H3 { font-style: italic }
H1 EM { font-style: normal }
’font-variant’
Value: normal | small-caps | inherit
Initial: normal
Applies to: all elements
Inherited: yes
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
In a small-caps font, the glyphs for lowercase letters look similar to the uppercase
ones, but in a smaller size and with slightly different proportions. The
’font-variant’ property requests such a font for bicameral (having two cases, as
with Latin script). This property has no visible effect for scripts that are unicameral
(having only one case, as with most of the world’s writing systems). Values
have the following meanings:
normal
Specifies a font that is not labeled as a small-caps font.
small-caps
Specifies a font that is labeled as a small-caps font. If a genuine small-caps
font is not available, user agents should simulate a small-caps font, for
example by taking a normal font and replacing the lowercase letters by
scaled uppercase characters. As a last resort, unscaled uppercase letter
glyphs in a normal font may replace glyphs in a small-caps font so that the
text appears in all uppercase letters.
Example(s):
The following example results in an H3 element in small-caps, with emphasized
words (EM) in oblique small-caps:
H3 { font-variant: small-caps }
EM { font-style: oblique }
Insofar as this property causes text to be transformed to uppercase, the same
considerations as for ’text-transform’ apply.
’font-weight’
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