The CSS font-variant-ligatures property is used for controlling ligatures on a text’s font. A ligature is a special character that combines two or more characters into one. Ligatures are commonly used to give certain style or look to the text.
Syntax:
font-variant-ligatures: Keyword_values
Or
font-variant-ligatures: Global_values
Property values: This property accepts property values mentioned above and described below.
- Keyword_values: This property value refers to the values defined by “normal”, “none”, “common-ligatures”, “no-common-ligatures”, “discretionary-ligatures”, “no-discretionary-ligatures”, “historical-ligatures”, “no-historical-ligatures”, “contextual”, “no-contextual”.
- Global_values: This property value refers to the values defined by “inherit”, “initial”, “unset”.
Example 1: Below is the example that illustrates the use of font-variant-ligatures property using common-ligatures and no-common-ligatures.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en">
<head>
<style>
div {
font-size: 5vw;
}
.off {
font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;
color: rgb(83, 241, 21);
}
.on {
font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
color: rgb(96, 153, 4);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: green;">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
<div>
<span class="off">wifi</span>
<span class="on">wifi</span>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Supported Browsers:
- Google Chrome 34+
- Firefox 34+
- Safari 9.1+
- Opera 21+
- Edge 79+