How to Capitalize Words using CSS

Published: Sunday, May 15, 2022

Greetings, friends! In one of my previous articles, I discussed how to capitalize strings using JavaScript. In this article, we'll learn how to use CSS to capitalize words.

First, Create an index.html file with the following contents:

html

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Capitalization with CSS</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <h1>capitalize me!</h1>
</body>
</html>

tip

If you don't feel like creating new files when following along this tutorial, you can use JS Bin instead!

When you open the index.html file, you should see a page with the following text: "capitalize me!" Suppose we want to capitalize these words using CSS instead of JavaScript.

Create a style.css file with the following contents:

css

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h1 {
  text-transform: capitalize;
}

If you refresh the page or reopen the index.html file, you should see "Capitalize Me!" instead. Each word in the h1 element has been capitalized. Note that the text-transform property will affect each word in the element.