letter-spacing Attribute | letterSpacing Property

Gets or sets the amount of additional space between letters in the object.

Syntax

CSS	{ letter-spacing : sSpacing }
Scripting	[ sSpacing = ] object.style.letterSpacing

Possible Values

sSpacing

String that specifies or receives one of the following values. normal Default. Default spacing. length Floating-point number, followed by an absolute units designator (cm, mm, in, pt, or pc) or a relative units designator (em, ex, or px). For more information about the supported length units, see CSS Length Units Reference.

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: currentStyle. The property has a default value of normal. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attribute is inherited.

DHTML expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s). As of Internet Explorer 8, expressions are supported in IE7 Standards mode and IE5 (Quirks) mode only. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties and Defining Document Compatibility.

Remarks

When specified as a positive length value, the letter-spacing attribute adds the specified value to the default spacing between characters within an element. A negative length value decreases the space between characters. Letter spacing can be influenced by justification.

Examples

The following examples use the letter-spacing attribute and the letterSpacing property to change the space between letters.

This example uses blockQuote as a selector to change the spacing to -0.2 millimeters for all blockQuote objects on the document.

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<STYLE>
    BLOCKQUOTE { letter-spacing:-0.2mm }
</STYLE>

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/letter-spacing.htm

This example uses inline scripting to set the spacing to 1 millimeter when an onmouseover event occurs.

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<DIV STYLE="font-size:14" onmouseover="this.style.letterSpacing='1mm'">
:
</DIV>

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/letterSpacing.htm

Standards Information

This property is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 1 (CSS1).

Applies To

A, ADDRESS, B, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, COL, COLGROUP, CSSStyleDeclaration, currentStyle, CUSTOM, DD, defaults, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, FIELDSET, FORM, hn, HTML, I, IMG, INPUT type=button, INPUT type=checkbox, INPUT type=file, INPUT type=image, INPUT type=password, INPUT type=radio, INPUT type=reset, INPUT type=submit, INPUT type=text, ISINDEX, KBD, LABEL, LEGEND, LI, LISTING, MARQUEE, MENU, OL, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, runtimeStyle, S, SAMP, SELECT, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, style, SUB, SUP, TABLE, TBODY, TD, TEXTAREA, TFOOT, TH, THEAD, TR, TT, U, UL, VAR, XMP, CSSCurrentStyleDeclaration Constructor, CSSRuleStyleDeclaration Constructor, CSSStyleDeclaration Constructor