The text-transform property allows webmasters to, well transform the appearance of the text.
Example:
Code:
<html>
<head><title>CSS - Text-Transform</title>
<style>
.allcaps {text-transform: uppercase}
.lower {text-transform: lowercase}
.wordcap {text-transform: capitalize}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="allcaps">The quick brown fox...</p>
<p class="lower">The quick brown fox...</p>
<p class="wordcap">The quick brown fox...</p>
<p>The quick brown fox...</p>
</body>
</html> The result is on
http://www.devlib.org/samples/text-transform.html
Best used to put emphasis (or to make the text ugly .. depending on how you look at it ..) on certain bits and pieces of text, like H1 tags etc.