Microsoft Typography | Typography on the Web | Specifying fonts... | 5.2.4 'font-variant'
		5.2.4 'font-variant' Value: normal | small-caps Initial: normal Applies to: all elements Inherited: yes Percentage values: N/A Microsoft® Internet Explorer 3.0 support: no. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 support: yes. Another type of variation within a font family is the small-caps. In a small-caps font the lower case letters look similar to the uppercase ones, but in a smaller size and with slightly different proportions. The 'font-variant' property selects that font. A value of 'normal' selects a font that is not a small-caps font, 'small-caps' selects a small-caps font. It is acceptable (but not required) in CSS1 if the small-caps font is a created by taking a normal font and replacing the lower case letters by scaled uppercase characters. As a last resort, uppercase letters will be used as replacement for a small-caps font. The following example results in an 'H3' element in small-caps, with emphasized words in oblique small-caps: H3 { font-variant: small-caps } EM { font-style: oblique } There may be other variants in the font family as well, such as fonts with old-style numerals, small-caps numerals, condensed or expanded letters, etc. CSS1 has no properties that select those. CSS1 core: insofar as this property causes text to be transformed to uppercase, the same considerations as for 'text-transform' apply. Dark blue text is taken from Cascading Style Sheets, level 1. W3C Recommendation 17 December 1996 - http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-CSS1 this text [ext link] signifies an external link, please read our disclaimer. this page was last updated 2 December 1997 © 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of use. comments to the MST group: how to contact us
	Microsoft Typography | Typography on the Web | Specifying fonts... | 5.2.4 'font-variant