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STYLE SHEETS

CSS: Dimensions
By: James Payne
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    2008-04-07

    Table of Contents:
  • CSS: Dimensions
  • Setting the Width with Pixels
  • Setting the Maximum Height and Minimum Height
  • Setting the Space Between Lines
  • Scrollbars in CSS

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    CSS: Dimensions - Setting the Space Between Lines


    (Page 4 of 5 )

    There are three methods for setting the space between lines. The first, shown below, is done by using the percent value:


    <html>

    <head>

    <style type="text/css">

    p.smoosh {line-height: 80%}

    p.open {line-height: 300%}

    </style>

    </head>

    <body>

    <p>

    I am your standard paragraph- no muss no fuss. Average sized. Not too skinny, not too fat. Just right.

    </p>

    <p class="smoosh">

    I have an eating disorder. I don't like spices or sauces on my food and I eat a crapload of ice. I shop at Gap Kids even though I am forty-nine years old. One time I locked myself out of the house but it was okay because I was able to slip underneath the crack in the door.</p>

    <p class="open">

    I'm not very close to the other sentences in this paragraph. To be quite frank, they all smell rather funny, like a hot dog someone left on the road too long maybe or a hippie. Yeah...you would keep your distance if you were me too...

    </p>

    </body>

    </html>

    Here's how you would set the space between lines using pixels:


    <html>

    <head>

    <style type="text/css">

    p.smoosh {line-height: 10px}

    p.open {line-height: 40px}

    </style>

    </head>

    <body>

    <p>

    I am your standard paragraph- no muss no fuss. Average sized. Not too skinny, not too fat. Just right.

    </p>

    <p class="smoosh">

    I have an eating disorder. I don't like spices or sauces on my food and I eat a crapload of ice. I shop at Gap Kids even though I am forty-nine years old. One time I locked myself out of the house but it was okay because I was able to slip underneath the crack in the door.</p>

    <p class="open">

    I'm not very close to the other sentences in this paragraph. To be quite frank, they all smell rather funny, like a hot dog someone left on the road too long maybe or a hippie. Yeah...you would keep your distance if you were me too...

    </p>

    </body>

    </html>

    Finally, you can use a number value to set the space between lines.


    <html>

    <head>

    <style type="text/css">

    p.smoosh {line-height: .5}

    p.open {line-height: 3}

    </style>

    </head>

    <body>

    <p>

    I am your standard paragraph- no muss no fuss. Average sized. Not too skinny, not too fat. Just right.

    </p>

    <p class="smoosh">

    I have an eating disorder. I don't like spices or sauces on my food and I eat a crapload of ice. I shop at Gap Kids even though I am forty-nine years old. One time I locked myself out of the house but it was okay because I was able to slip underneath the crack in the door.</p>

    <p class="open">

    I'm not very close to the other sentences in this paragraph. To be quite frank, they all smell rather funny, like a hot dog someone left on the road too long maybe or a hippie. Yeah...you would keep your distance if you were me too...

    </p>

    </body>

    </html>

    Note that the last example is probably the one you are most used to if you have ever worked with a Word document and used its line spacing.

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