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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

by Eric A. Meyer
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
16h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

line-height

Synopsis

This property influences the layout of line boxes. When applied to a block-level element, it defines the minimum distance between baselines within that element, but not the maximum. The difference between the computed values of line-height and font-size (called “leading” in CSS) is split in half and added to the top and bottom of each piece of content in a line of text. The shortest box that can enclose all those pieces of content is the line box. A raw number value assigns a scaling factor, which is inherited instead of a computed value. Negative values are not permitted.

Values:

<length> | <percentage> | <number> | normal | inherit

Initial value:

normal

Applies to:

all elements (but see text regarding replaced and block-level elements)

Inherited:

yes

Percentages:

relative to the font size of the element

Computed value:

for length and percentage values, the absolute value; otherwise, as specified

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