line-height property

Sets or retrieves the distance between lines in the object.

Syntax

line-height: normal | number | length | percentage | inherit

Property values

normal: Default. Default height.
number: The used value is this number multiplied by the element's font size. Negative values are ignored.
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.
percentage: Integer, followed by a percent sign (%). The value is a percentage of the height of the parent object.
inherit: For a given element, the property takes the same specified value as the property for the element's parent.

CSS information

Applies To	All elements
Media	visual
Inherited	no
Initial Value	normal

Standards information

CSS 2.1, Section 5.4.8

Remarks

Line height is the distance between the descender of the font and the top of the internal leading of the font.

If a formatted line contains more than one object, the maximum line height applies. In this case, negative values are not allowed.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 supports the line-height attribute through the font attribute.

Examples

The following examples use the line-height attribute and the line-height property to control the height of paragraph lines.

This example uses p and blockquote as selectors in an embedded (global) style sheet to change the distance between the lines in all p and blockquote objects.

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

JavaScript


<style>
    p { line-height:8mm; }
    blockquote { line-height:4mm; }
</style>

This example uses inline scripting to set the distance between lines when an onmouseover event occurs.

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