The text property in CSS is a shorthand property that sets the text-related properties for an element in a single declaration.

Here is an example of how to use the text property:

p {
text: bold italic underline;
}

In this example, the text property sets the font weight to bold, the font style to italic, and the text decoration to underline for the <p> element.

The text property can also accept additional values to set the text-related properties for the element separately.

p {
text-align: center;
text-decoration: underline;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black;
}

In this example, the text-align property sets the alignment of the text, the text-decoration property sets the text decoration, the text-transform property sets the text transformation, and the text-shadow property sets the shadow of the text.