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Learn how to customize text-related styles and properties such as font size, font style, text decoration, font weight and more using Tailwind CSS classes

Get started with a collection of text customization examples to learn how to update the size, font weight, style, decoration and spacing of inline text elements using Tailwind CSS.

Font size #

Use this example to set the font size of inline text elements using the text-{size} class.

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<p class="text-xs text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-sm text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-base text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-lg text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-2xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-3xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-5xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-6xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-7xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-8xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-9xl text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>

Font weight #

This example can be used to the font weight of an inline text element using the font-{size} class.

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<p class="text-4xl font-thin text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-extralight text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-light text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-normal text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-bold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-extrabold text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>
<p class="text-4xl font-black text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Aa</p>

Text color #

Use the text-{color} classes from Tailwind CSS to set the color of the inline text.

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<p class="text-blue-600">This text is in the blue color.</p>
<p class="text-green-500">This text is in the green color.</p>
<p class="text-red-600">This text is in the red color.</p>
<p class="text-purple-600">This text is in the purple color.</p>
<p class="text-teal-600">This text is in the teal color.</p>

Letter spacing #

Increase or decrease the spacing between letters using the tracking-{type} class.

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<p class="tracking-normal text-gray-500 md:text-lg dark:text-gray-400">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>
<p class="tracking-wide text-gray-500 md:text-lg dark:text-gray-400">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>
<p class="tracking-wider text-gray-500 md:text-lg dark:text-gray-400">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>
<p class="tracking-widest text-gray-500 md:text-lg dark:text-gray-400">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>

Text Decoration #

Set decoration for the inline text elements such as underline, line through or uppercase using classes from Tailwind CSS.

Underline #

Underline text by using the underline class or disable it using no-underline.

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Line through #

Set a strikethrough line on a text element using the line-through class.

        
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Uppercase #

Force uppercase characters for a given portion of text using the uppercase class.

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<p class="text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-white">The crypto <span class="uppercase">identity</span> primitive.</p>

Font style #

Set italic or non italic styles with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS.

Italic #

Use the italic class from Tailwind CSS to set italic font style to a text element.

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<p class="text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-white">The crypto <span class="italic">identity</span> primitive.</p>

Normal #

Text elements by default are non-italic.

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<p class="text-lg font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-white">The crypto identity primitive.</p>

Line Height #

Set the height between lines using the leading-{type} classes from Tailwind CSS.

Leading normal #

Use the leading-normal class to set default line height.

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<p class="max-w-lg text-3xl font-semibold leading-normal text-gray-900 dark:text-white">The Al-powered app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>

Leading relaxed #

Use the leading-relaxed class to increase the space between lines.

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<p class="max-w-lg text-3xl font-semibold leading-relaxed text-gray-900 dark:text-white">The Al-powered app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>

Leading loose #

Use the leading-loose class to set a large amount of space between text lines.

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<p class="max-w-lg text-3xl font-semibold leading-loose text-gray-900 dark:text-white">The Al-powered app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>

Text Align #

Use the following examples to align the text content to the left, center, or right side of the page.

Left #

Use the text-left class to align the text to the left side of the page.

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<p class="text-left text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Get started with an enterprise-level, profesionally designed, fully responsive, and HTML semantic set of web pages, sections and over 400+ components crafted with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS and based on the Tailwind component library</p>

Center #

Use the text-center class to align the text content to the center of the page.

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<p class="text-center text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Get started with an enterprise-level, profesionally designed, fully responsive, and HTML semantic set of web pages, sections and over 400+ components crafted with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS and based on the Tailwind component library</p>

Right #

Use the text-right class to align the text element to the right side of the page.

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<p class="text-right text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Get started with an enterprise-level, profesionally designed, fully responsive, and HTML semantic set of web pages, sections and over 400+ components crafted with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS and based on the Tailwind component library</p>

Text justify #

Use the text-justify class to justify the text content.

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<p class="text-justify text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Get started with an enterprise-level, profesionally designed, fully responsive, and HTML semantic set of web pages, sections and over 400+ components crafted with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS and based on the Tailwind component library</p>

Whitespace #

Configure the whitespace behaviour of inline text elements using classes from Tailwind CSS.

Normal #

Use the whitespace-normal class to set the default whitespace behaviour.

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<p class="text-gray-500 whitespace-normal dark:text-gray-400">
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
<p>

Nowrap #

Use the whitespace-nowrap class to prevent text being added to a new line when the full width has been reached.

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<p class="text-gray-500 whitespace-nowrap dark:text-gray-400">
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
<p>

Pre line #

Use the whitespace-pre-line class to add whitespace exactly how it has been set from the source code.

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<p class="text-gray-500 whitespace-pre-line dark:text-gray-400">
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
<p>

Text Decoration Style #

Update the text decoration style using the decoration-{*} classes from Tailwind CSS.

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Opacity #

Use the text-{color}-{opacity} class from Tailwind CSS to set the opacity of inline text elements.

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<p class="text-xl font-semibold text-blue-600/100 dark:text-blue-500/100">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>
<p class="text-xl font-semibold text-blue-600/75 dark:text-blue-500/75">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>
<p class="text-xl font-semibold text-blue-600/50 dark:text-blue-500/50">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>
<p class="text-xl font-semibold text-blue-600/25 dark:text-blue-500/25">Tailwind app will help you improve yourself by analysing your everyday life.</p>