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CSS3 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Cascading Style Sheets Language
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CSS3 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Cascading Style Sheets Language

by Mikael Olsson
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
2h 45m
English
Apress
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© Mikael Olsson 2019
Mikael OlssonCSS3 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4903-1_12

12. Text Spacing

Mikael Olsson1 
(1)
Hammarland, Finland
 

The following properties deal with the space between text content. They are all inherited by default.

line-height

line-height sets the distance between lines. The initial value is normal, which is typically rendered as 120% of the font size. The line height can also be set to a length, a percentage of the current font size, or a dimensionless number that is multiplied with the current font size.
line-height : inherit | normal | <length> | <percentage> | <number>
The line-height property inherits, so the preferred way to set line-height is by using a dimensionless number. Setting line-height ...
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