CSS Text Code Tutorials

How to set the boldness of a font using CSS

The code below shows you how to set the boldness of a font using CSS.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>

<style type="text/css">
p {font-weight: normal;}
p.one {font-weight: bold;}
p.two {font-weight: 400;}
p.three {font-weight: 900;}
</style>

</head>
<body>
<p>
This is a paragraph with a normal font-weight.
</p>
<p class="one">
This is a paragraph with a bold font-weight.
</p>
<p class="two">
This is a paragraph with a font-weight of 400.
</p>
<p class="three">
This is a paragraph with a font-weight of 900.
</p>
</body>
</html>

The code above creates the paragraphs below.

This is a paragraph with a normal font-weight.

This is a paragraph with a font-weight of 400.

This is a paragraph with a font-weight of 900.

Use the text editor below to practice what you have learned.