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Style modifiers

UIkit offers various text utilities to style your text.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-lead Add this class to highlight text, for example in article subtitles.
.uk-text-meta Add this class to a paragraph which contains meta data about an article or similar.

Font size

The following classes will modify the font size of your text.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-small Add this class to decrease the font size.
.uk-text-large Add this class to increase the font size.

Font weight

Add one of the following classes to modify the font weight of your text.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-light Add this class to apply a font weight of 300.
.uk-text-normal Add this class to apply a font weight of 400.
.uk-text-bold Add this class to apply a font weight of 700.
.uk-text-lighter Add this class to apply a lighter font weight.
.uk-text-bolder Add this class to apply a bolder font weight.

Font style

Add the .uk-text-italic class to create italic text.


Text transform

The following classes will transform text into uppercased, capitalized or lowercased characters.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-capitalize Add this class to transform your text to capitalize.
.uk-text-uppercase Add this class to transform your text to uppercase.
.uk-text-lowercase Add this class to transform your text to lowercase.

Text color

Use one of these classes to apply a different color to text elements.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-muted Add this class to mute text.
.uk-text-emphasis Add this class to emphasize text.
.uk-text-primary Add this class to emphasize text with the primary color.
.uk-text-secondary Add this class to emphasize text with the secondary color.
.uk-text-success Add this class to indicate success.
.uk-text-warning Add this class to indicate a warning.
.uk-text-danger Add this class to indicate danger.

Text background

To apply a gradient or background image to text, add the .uk-text-background class to a <span> element inside the text element. Styles that don't define a background-image, will apply the primary color.

<h1><span class="uk-text-background"></span></h1>

Text alignment

Add one of these useful classes to align your text.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-left Aligns text to the left.
.uk-text-right Aligns text to the right.
.uk-text-center Centers text horizontally.
.uk-text-justify Justifies text

Responsive

UIkit provides a number of responsive alignment classes. Basically, they work just like the usual alignment classes, except that they have suffixes that represent the breakpoint from which they come to effect.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-left@s
.uk-text-center@s
.uk-text-right@s
Affects device widths of 640px and larger.
.uk-text-left@m
.uk-text-center@m
.uk-text-right@m
Affects device widths of 960px and larger.
.uk-text-left@l
.uk-text-center@l
.uk-text-right@l
Affects device widths of 1200px and larger.
.uk-text-left@xl
.uk-text-center@xl
.uk-text-right@xl
Affects device widths of 1600px and larger

Vertical alignment

Add one of these classes to vertically align text to an object.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-top Aligns text to the top.
.uk-text-middle Centers text vertically.
.uk-text-bottom Aligns text to the bottom.
.uk-text-baseline Aligns text to the baseline.

Text wrapping

Add one of these useful classes to wrap your text.

ClassDescription
.uk-text-truncate Prevents text from wrapping into multiple lines, truncating it and displaying an ellipsis instead.
.uk-text-break Breaks strings, if their length exceeds the width of their container.
.uk-text-nowrap Prevents text from wrapping into multiple lines.

  • <div class="uk-child-width-1-2@s" uk-grid>
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