CSS - font-stretch


Description:

The font-stretch property makes text characters wider or narrower than the font.s default character width.

Possible Values:

  • ultra-condensed: The text characters in the element will be narrowed extremely.
  • extra-condensed: The text characters in the element will be narrowed significantly.
  • condensed: The text characters in the element will be narrowed, more so than if the value were semi-condensed.
  • semi-condensed: The text characters in the element will be slightly narrowed, making them narrower than if the value were normal.
  • normal: The text characters in the element are of normal width.
  • semi-expanded: The text characters in the element will be slightly widened, making them wider than if the value were normal.
  • expanded: The text characters in the element will be widened, making them wider than if the value were semi-expanded.
  • extra-expanded: The text characters in the element will be widened greatly, making them wider than if the value were expanded.
  • ultra-expanded: The text characters in the element will be widened extremely, making them wider than if the value were extra-expanded.
  • wider: The width of text characters in the element will be wider than those of their parent element.
  • narrower: The width of text characters in the element will be narrower than those of their parent element.

Applies to:

All the HTML elements

DOM Syntax:

object.style.fontStretch="expanded";

Example:

Here is the example using this property:

<p style="font-stretch:ultra-expanded;">
If this doesn't appear to work, it is likely that 
your computer doesn't have a condensed or expanded 
version of the font being used.
</p>
     

This will produce following result:

If this doesn't appear to work, it is likely that your computer doesn't have a condensed or expanded version of the font being used.

 





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