Cheat Sheet for Basic CSS Declarations
Tom Linton, Central College, Spring 04

Property
Values
color
red, blue, #108010 (any predefined color or HEX value)
text-align
left  right   center  
justify
justify gives straight margins on both sides.
font-style
italic, oblique, normal
font-weight
bold, normal, bolder, lighter, 100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900, only the first 2 seem to work properly with this font.
font-size
14pt (or other point values), xx-small, x-small, small, large, x-large, xx-large, medium, larger, smaller, 150% (or other percentages of the normal size).
text-decoration
none, underline, overline, line-through, blink.
text-transform
Capitalize, UPPERCASE, lowercase, none
font-variant
none, small-caps
font-family
any valid font name, listing several is best.
background-color
red, yellow, #808000 (any pre-defined or HEX color)
line-height
20pt (or any valid measurement),
200% (any percentage of single line height), or
1.5 (any multiple of single line height).
text-indent
any valid measurement (2em, 15mm, 0.2in, 30px), or percentage (5%, 10%).
This paragraph has a text-indent of -2em and padding-left set to 2em and it gives what is known as a hanging indentation. The first line is "out-dented" from the rest of the paragraph. I also attempted to set the text-align to justify, to illustrate what that means (both margins are straight).