Text

Documentation and examples for common text utilities to control alignment, wrapping, weight, and more.

Text alignment

Easily realign text to components with text alignment classes. For left, right, and center alignment, responsive classes are available that use the same viewport width breakpoints as the grid system.

Left aligned text on all viewport sizes.

Center aligned text on all viewport sizes.

Right aligned text on all viewport sizes.


                            
                              
                            
                          

Text wrapping and overflow

Wrap text with a .cd-text-wrap class.

This text should wrap.

                            
                              
                            
                          

Prevent text from wrapping with a .cd-text-nowrap class.

This text should overflow the parent.

                            
                              
                            
                          

Word break

Prevent long strings of text from breaking your components’ layout by using .cd-text-break to set word-wrap: break-word and word-break: break-word. We use word-wrap instead of the more common overflow-wrap for wider browser support, and add the deprecated word-break: break-word to avoid issues with flex containers.

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Text transform

Transform text in components with text capitalization classes.

Lowercased text.

Uppercased text.

CapiTaliZed text.


                            
                              
                            
                          

Font weight and italics

Quickly change the font-weight or font-style of text with these utilities. font-style utilities are abbreviated as .cd-fst-* and font-weight utilities are abbreviated as .cd-fw-*.

Bold text.

Bolder weight text (relative to the parent element).

Normal weight text.

Light weight text.

Lighter weight text (relative to the parent element).

Italic text.

Text without font style


                            
                              
                            
                          

Line height

Change the line height with .cd-lh-* utilities.

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Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Donec sed odio dui. Cras mattis pannenkoek purus sit amet fermentum. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. (.cd-lh-2)

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Text decoration

Decorate text in components with text decoration classes.

This text has a line underneath it.

This text has a line going through it.

This link has its text decoration removed