Now that you know how to create CSS rules, you'll need to start learning the basic properties and their values. For a while, I'll be presenting lists of related properties and their values, which will then (hopefully) be followed by tip sheets for each property and its values. Since text is so important in webpages, we'll start with fonts. Notice some of the properties begin with font- and some begin with text-. Be sure to use the right one when coding.

Property	Value	Example	Supported Browsers
			E	N	F	O
color	#hex number, rgb(%,%,%), keywords, rgb(#,#,#)	#CC0000, rgb(60%,20%,20%), red, rgb(255,16,101)
font-family	family-name or generic-family	serif and sans-serif are generic fonts; it's a good idea to include one or the other after your list of font names (Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif). If none of the fonts you indicated are installed on the visitor's computer, CSS will use the generic description to render a font that is in the style you chose.
font-size	pt, px, percent, absolute-size ([ xx-small | x-small | small | medium | large | x-large | xx-large ])	pt is Point, i.e. 12pt px is Pixel, i.e. 10px
font-stretch	normal, wider, narrower, ultra-condensed, extra-condensed, condensed, semi-condensed, semi-expanded, expanded, extra-expanded, ultra-expanded, inherit
font-style	normal, italic, oblique	oblique is created by the computer using an algorithm to "tilt" the font to the right; if the font you choose has no italic version, CSS will default to oblique.
font-variant	normal, small-caps
font-weight	normal, bold, bolder, lighter, number (100, 200 ... 900; ), inherit	Not all fonts are able to render in all weight values. If they aren't able to do so, they will default to the nearest number that they CAN render.
font	font-style font-variant font-weight font-size/line-height font-family	Need to be listed in the correct order; can leave out any options you don't want to use. Note: using this shorthand resets any property not explicitly given a value to its initial value. { italic small-caps bold 18pt/24pt "Times New Roman"; }
letter-spacing	normal, 1em, 2em, etc.	Affects kerning (the distance between letters).
line-height	normal, %, pt, etc.	Affects leading (the distance between lines of text).
text-align	left, right, center, justify
text-decoration	none, underline, overline, line-through, blink	blink is not available in MSIE
text-shadow	none, color length length length, inherit	See filters (Visual Effects) for another way of creating shadows.
text-transform	none, capitalize, uppercase, lowercase
text-indent	(length), (percent)	Length in pixels; indents the first line of a paragraph.
word-spacing	normal, 1em, 2em, etc	Affects the distance between words.