css font properties Vs text properties

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css font properties Vs text properties

After referring these two links (font properties and text properties), I have a doubt.

What is font? and what is text?

http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/css_reference.asp#font

http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/css_reference.asp#text

For example both color, font-size describes typography but why they placed in two different categories?

I'm missing some thing basically. What is it? Thanks for any help in advance.

Font is how the letters look like. Text is where to place them...

Wim 2009-11-05 14:06:57

Except for text-decoration, which actually affects what the letters look like. And also text-transform. There's also color, which is neither text nor font, but affects how it looks.

Myles 2009-11-05 14:09:43

Decoration isn't really defined in the font itself, transform just chooses which characters to show within the current font. You have to look at a Font just as the curves/pixels required for each character. Everything else is at a different, unrelated level. Although I agree the distinction can be blurry for some properties.

Wim 2009-11-05 14:16:30

@Wim Also refer: font-variant: normal, small-caps; and text-transform: uppercase, capitalize, lowercase. These are not obeying your definition.

rajakvk 2009-11-05 14:19:11

Uppercase/lowercase do not change the font, they change the character code. Small-caps is a bit different, since most fonts indeed have a special version (or at least a scale factor of their uppercase set) for rendering the small caps...

Wim 2009-11-05 14:24:38

+2 A:

Font is purely for control of Font related attributes whereas Text controls things that go beyond just the Font (such as alignment, etc).

Robadob 2009-11-05 14:07:17

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