text-transform

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨julho de 2015⁩.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

A propriedade de CSS text-transform especifica como capitalizar um texto de um elemento. Pode ser usado para que o texto apareça com todas as letras maiúsculas ou todas minúsculas, ou com cada palavra em maiúscula.

css

/* Keyword values */
text-transform: capitalize;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-transform: lowercase;
text-transform: none;
text-transform: full-width;

/* Global values */
text-transform: inherit;
text-transform: initial;
text-transform: unset;

The text-transform property takes into account language-specific case mapping rules, like:

in Turkic languages, like Turkish (tr), Azerbaijani (az), Crimean Tatar (crh), Volga Tatar (tt), and Bashkir (ba), there are two kinds of i, with and without the dot, and two case pairings: i/İ and ı/I.
In German (de), the ß becomes SS in uppercase.
In Dutch (nl), the ij digraph becomes IJ, even with text-transform: capitalize, which only put the first letter of a word in uppercase.
In Greek (el), vowels lose their accent when the whole word is in uppercase (ά/Α), except for the disjunctive eta (ή/Ή). Also, diphthongs with an accent on the first vowel lose the accent and gain a diaeresis on the second vowel (άι/ΑΪ).
In Greek (el), the lowercase sigma character has two forms: σ and ς. ς is used only when sigma terminates a word. When applying text-transform: lowercase to an uppercase sigma (Σ), the browser needs to choose the right lowercase form based on context.
in Irish (ga), certain prefixed letters remain in lowercase when the base initial is capitalised, so for example text-transform: uppercase will change ar aon tslí to AR AON tSLÍ and not, as one might expect, AR AON TSLÍ (Firefox only). In some cases, a hyphen is also removed upon uppercasing: an t-uisce transforms to AN tUISCE (and the hyphen is correctly reinserted by text-transform: lowercase)

The language is defined by the lang HTML attribute or the xml:lang XML attribute.

Support for these specific cases vary from one browser to the other, so check the browser compatibility table.

Initial value	`none`
Aplica-se a	all elements. It also applies to `::first-letter` and `::first-line`.
Inherited	yes
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	discrete

Syntax

capitalize: Is a keyword forcing the first letter of each word to be converted to uppercase. Other characters are unchanged; that is, they retain their original case as written in the element's text. A letter is any Unicode character part of the Letter or Number general categories Experimental : it excludes any punctuation marks or symbols at the beginning of the word.

Nota: Authors should not expect capitalize to follow language-specific title casing conventions (such as skipping articles in English).

Nota: The capitalize keyword was under-specified in CSS 1 and CSS 2.1. There were differences between browsers in the way the first letter was calculated (Firefox considered - and _ as letters, but not the others. Both Webkit and Gecko incorrectly considered letter-based symbols like ⓐ to be real letters. Internet Explorer 9 was the closest to the CSS 2 definition, but with some weird cases). By precisely defining the correct behavior, CSS Text Level 3 cleans this mess up. The capitalize line in the browser compatibility table contains the version the different engines started to support this now precisely defined behavior.
uppercase: Is a keyword forcing all characters to be converted to uppercase.
lowercase: Is a keyword forcing all characters to be converted to lowercase.
none: Is a keyword preventing the case of all characters to be changed.
full-width Experimental: Is a keyword forcing the writing of a character — mainly ideograms and latin scripts — inside a square, allowing them to be aligned in the usual East Asian scripts (like Chinese or Japanese).

Formal syntax

text-transform = 
  none                                                |
  [ capitalize | uppercase | lowercase ] || full-width || full-size-kana  |
  math-auto

Examples

Example using "none"

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: none
  <strong
    ><span
      >Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: none;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates no text transformation.

`capitalize` (General)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: capitalize
  <strong
    ><span
      >Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: capitalize;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates text capitalization.

`capitalize` (Punctuation)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong
    >(this) “is” [a] –short– -test- «for» *the* _css_ ¿capitalize?
    ?¡transform!</strong
  >
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: capitalize
  <strong
    ><span
      >(this) “is” [a] –short– -test- «for» *the* _css_ ¿capitalize?
      ?¡transform!</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: capitalize;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demostrates how initial punctuations of a word are ignored. The keyword target the first letter, that is the first Unicode character part of the Letter or Number general category.

`capitalize` (Symbols)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong>ⓐⓑⓒ (ⓓⓔⓕ) —ⓖⓗⓘ— ⓙkl</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: capitalize
  <strong><span>ⓐⓑⓒ (ⓓⓔⓕ) —ⓖⓗⓘ— ⓙkl</span></strong>
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: capitalize;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates how initial symbols are ignored. The keyword target the first letter, that is the first Unicode character part of the Letter or Number general category.

`capitalize` (Dutch ij digraph)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong lang="nl">The Dutch word: "ijsland" starts with a digraph.</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: capitalize
  <strong
    ><span lang="nl"
      >The Dutch word: "ijsland" starts with a digraph.</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: capitalize;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates how the Dutch ij digraph must be handled like one single letter.

`uppercase` (General)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: uppercase
  <strong
    ><span
      >Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: uppercase;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates transforming the text to uppercase.

`uppercase` (Greek Vowels)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong>Θα πάμε στο "Θεϊκό φαΐ" ή στη "Νεράιδα"</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: uppercase
  <strong><span>Θα πάμε στο "Θεϊκό φαΐ" ή στη "Νεράιδα"</span></strong>
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: uppercase;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates how Greek vowels except disjunctive eta should have no accent, and the accent on the first vowel of a vowel pair becomes a diaeresis on the second vowel.

`lowercase` (General)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: lowercase
  <strong
    ><span
      >Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, ...</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: lowercase;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates transforming the text to lowercase.

`lowercase` (Greek Σ)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong>Σ IS A greek LETTER that appears SEVERAL TIMES IN ΟΔΥΣΣΕΥΣ.</strong>
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: lowercase
  <strong
    ><span
      >Σ IS A greek LETTER that appears SEVERAL TIMES IN ΟΔΥΣΣΕΥΣ.</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: lowercase;
}
strong {
  float: right;
}

This demonstrates how the Greek character sigma (Σ) is transformed into the regular lowercase sigma (σ) or the word-final variant (ς), according the context.

`full-width` (General)

html

<p>
  Initial String
  <strong
    >0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@{|}~</strong
  >
</p>
<p>
  text-transform: full-width
  <strong
    ><span
      >0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@{|}~</span
    ></strong
  >
</p>

css

span {
  text-transform: full-width;
}
strong {
  width: 100%;
  float: right;
}

Some characters exists in two formats, normal width and a full-width, with different Unicode code points. The full-width version is used to mix them smoothly with Asian ideographic characters.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Text Module Level 4 # text-transform-property

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