Text

A collection of utility classes to style text.

Combine this component with the Heading component to style your content.

Style modifiers

UIkit offers various text utilities to style your text.

Class	Description
`.uk-text-lead`	Add this class to highlight text, for example in article subtitles.
`.uk-text-meta`	Add this class to a paragraph that contains meta text about an article or similar.

Class	Description
`.uk-text-small`	Add this class to decrease the font size.
`.uk-text-default`	Add this class to set default 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.

Class	Description
`.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 the text into uppercased, capitalized or lowercase characters.

Class	Description
`.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 decoration

Add the .uk-text-decoration-none class to remove any text decoration from a link.

Text color

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

Class	Description
`.uk-text-muted`	Add this class to mute 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.

Class	Description
`.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.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. .uk-text-left

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. .uk-text-right

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. .uk-text-center

<div class="uk-child-width-1-3@s uk-grid-small" uk-grid>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-card-small uk-card uk-card-default">
      <div class="uk-card-body uk-text-left">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.
        <code>.uk-text-left</code>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-card-small uk-card uk-card-default">
      <div class="uk-card-body uk-text-right">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.
        <code>.uk-text-right</code>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-card-small uk-card uk-card-default">
      <div class="uk-card-body uk-text-center">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.
        <code>.uk-text-center</code>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

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.

Class	Description
`.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 768px and larger.
`.uk-text-left@l` `.uk-text-center@l` `.uk-text-right@l`	Affects device widths of 1024px and larger.
`.uk-text-left@xl` `.uk-text-center@xl` `.uk-text-right@xl`	Affects device widths of 1280px and larger.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. .uk-text-center@s

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. .uk-text-right@l

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. .uk-text-center@m

<div class="uk-child-width-1-3@s uk-grid-small" uk-grid>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-card-small uk-card uk-card-default">
      <div class="uk-text-center@s uk-card-body">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.
        <code>.uk-text-center@s</code>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-card-small uk-card uk-card-default">
      <div class="uk-text-right@l uk-card-body">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.
        <code>.uk-text-right@l</code>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-card-small uk-card uk-card-default">
      <div class="uk-text-center@m uk-card-body">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.
        <code>.uk-text-center@m</code>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Vertical alignment

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

Class	Description
`.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.

Lorem ipsum.

Lorem ipsum.

Lorem ipsum.

<div class="uk-child-width-1-2@s uk-child-width-1-3@m" uk-grid>
  <div>
    <img
      class="uk-inline uk-margin-small-right"
      src="/images/avatar.jpg"
      width="50"
      height="50"
    />
    <span class="uk-text-top">Lorem ipsum.</span>
  </div>
  <div>
    <img
      class="uk-inline uk-margin-small-right"
      src="/images/avatar.jpg"
      width="50"
      height="50"
    />
    <span class="uk-text-middle">Lorem ipsum.</span>
  </div>
  <div>
    <img
      class="uk-inline uk-margin-small-right"
      src="/images/avatar.jpg"
      width="50"
      height="50"
    />
    <span class="uk-text-bottom">Lorem ipsum.</span>
  </div>
</div>

Text wrapping

Add one of these useful classes to wrap your text.

Class	Description
`.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.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

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<div class="uk-child-width-1-2@s" uk-grid>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-text-truncate uk-panel">
      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
      tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-text-break uk-panel">
      Loremipsumdolorsitamet,consecteturadipiscingelit,seddoeiusmodtemporincididuntutlaboreetdoloremagnaaliqua.
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

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Style modifiers
Font size
Font weight
Font style
Text transform
Text decoration
Text color
Text background
Text alignment
Text wrapping

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