Comments on: text-transform https://css-tricks.com Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets. Fri, 13 Jan 2023 03:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Harry https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1802646 Fri, 13 Jan 2023 03:27:00 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1802646 How do we deal with stuff like, “McTavish” or O’Brien ?

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By: Daniel Dibaba https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1775423 Sat, 03 Jul 2021 12:20:42 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1775423 I think the order is important. Make the element {text-transform:lowercase} the first and

item:first-letter {
  text-transform: capitalize;
}

the next

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By: Theresa https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1755428 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:12:18 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1755428 Another Point of Interest is that anything inside () also gets capitalized, which means “grade level(s)” becomes “Grade Level(S)” :(

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By: Luke R https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1750477 Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:55:33 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1750477 Looks like in Firefox hyphenated words only have the first word capitalized, ie, Double-parked, not Double-Parked.

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By: Lars https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1652796 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:32:35 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1652796 In reply to Vishal.

Very useful comment ++. I just added this to a span, ended up using display: inline-block on it, which in my use case had other benefits.

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By: Andrew https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1649106 Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:51:23 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1649106 In reply to Kellie.

try this…

.item {
text-transform: lowercase;
}

item:first-letter {
text-transform: capitalize;
}

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By: Sara Walker https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1639258 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:19:33 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1639258 CHRIS COYIER – you ARE the man! You help me out on a daily basis with your ‘CSS Tricks’. Thank you for your insight – as always.

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By: Govind Patil https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1612855 Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:31:19 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1612855 In reply to Joe.

Browser support needs correction here.
“initial” value is not supported in IE11 and Lower Versions. Instead we can set value “none” which works on all major browsers.

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By: Vishal https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1612700 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:29:45 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1612700 If the display is inline the above wont work

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By: Duncan https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1608506 Wed, 10 May 2017 16:13:52 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1608506 In reply to Joe.

@samuel
Just to clarify:
selector:first-letter {} 1x : won’t work since that’s trying to target a pseudo-class.

It has to be:
selector::first-letter {} 2x : which targets the ‘first-letter’ pseudo-element.

Joe’s snippet has the correct :: in action.

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By: Kellie https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1607495 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:41:40 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1607495 Wishing there was a “sentence case” so I could turn huge blocks of all caps text into comfortably readable sentences with just the initial letter of the first word capitalized. Maybe in the next version of CSS? (crossing fingers…)

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By: Joe G https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1606494 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 01:43:07 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1606494 In reply to Joe.

@Samuel . this worked when the letters came into the source all caps. Tested in Chrome. What browser are you trying it in? It’s cross-browser compatible so it should be fine: http://caniuse.com/#search=first-letter

.page-content .page-title::first-letter {
    font-weight: 600;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}
.page-content .page-title {
    font-size: 26px;
    text-transform: lowercase;
}
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By: samuel https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1606490 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:00:16 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1606490 In reply to Joe.

I tried this:

element:first-letter {text-transform:uppercase}
element {text-transform:lowercase}

but this doesn’t work. It returns all letters to be small letters

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By: Jorge Hawkins https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1604886 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:43:20 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1604886 In reply to Joe.

Use text-transform: uppercase on the first letter, and text-transfrom: lowercase on the rest.

element:first-letter {text-transform:uppercase}
element {text-transform:lowercase}

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By: Karthik https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-transform/#comment-1600014 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 06:59:23 +0000 http://css-tricks.com/?page_id=144460#comment-1600014 @JOE, I have a similar issue as yours. The input data is all caps which I convert into camel case/title case using the CSS text-transform:capitalize after converting them to lowercase. But the issue now is, few abbreviations and acronyms such as “US” or “U.S”, also go through this transformation. This needs to be avoided. Any ideas or suggestions?

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