CSS Text Formating 101

Adding a Background Color to Text
Adding a background color to a line of text can help it stand out. Here's how.

Apply Styles Panel
Expression Web Designer's Apply Style panel provides a preview of styles and a "clear styles" command that comes in handy.

Borders - Creating with CSS
How to create borders around an object using CSS. In this example we create borders around a photo.

Capitalizing Text Easily
Turn capitalization on where each word is automatically capitalized; text can be forced to uppercase or lower case, or text can be all caps at lowercase size.

Choosing Safe Fonts
Expression web designer allows you to choose any font on your system to design web pages, here's how to choose fonts that will work on other machines, devices etc.

Creating Custom Hyperlink Hover States
We'll show you how to create more than one kind of hyperlink hover state in the same web page. For example, you can have one style of hyperlink hover state in the main body of the page, while having a different style of hover state in a text menu. We'll show you how to easily create these using Expression Web.

CSS 101 - Design Approaches to New CSS Rules
The 4 ways to apply CSS can determine how easy or difficult it is to later make changes in your page. Learn how to choose the best way to apply CSS through this tutorial and avoid time consuming mistakes.

Font dialog panel in edit/new style
Tips and tricks when using the font dialog page in the edit / create new style page

Manage Styles Panel
Expression Web Designer's Manage Styles Panel provides a wide assortment of options to manage and place CSS styles. Use it to organize your styles, apply a style, preview a style, and move styles between pages and external style sheets.

Placing Image Backgrounds on Boxes, Text etc.
You can easily add images as backgrounds to most CSS formatted objects. Here's how to add it to the back of a layer.

Placing Text in a Box Made From a Layer
You can create a large box around paragraphs of text - here's how by using only css. (No table)

Placing Text in a Box Made From a Table
You can create a large box around paragraphs of text - here's how by using a table and some css.

Text Decorations - Adding or Removing Lines etc.
Text characteristics such as forced underline on or off, strikethrough, or overline.

Text Sizing in CSS - Fixed vs Relative
There are two primary ways to size text - fixed versus relative - each have their benefits and pitfalls. Learn when to choose one or the other.

What are 'Autostyles' Anyway?
Expression Web's CSS creation "Auto Style" feature is a bit mis-named, and that can cause misunderstanding of how it all works when using this feature to create CSS styles for your web page. In this tutorial, we help you understand exactly how auto-styles work. With this knowledge you'll make better choices in setting up auto-styles and benefit from creating exactly the kind of styles (inline or class) that work best for you and your project.