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letter-spacing property

Sets or retrieves the amount of additional space between letters in the object.

Syntax

letter-spacing: normal | <length> | inherit

Property 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 Values and Units Reference.
inherit

CSS information

Applies To	All elements
Media	visual
Inherited	1
Initial Value

Standards information

CSS 2.1, Section 5.4.2

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 letter-spacing 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 page.

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


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

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

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


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

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