layout-grid-line property

Specifies the gridline value used for rendering the text content of an element.

Syntax

layout-grid-line: none | auto | <length>

Property values

none: Default. No grid line is set.
auto: Largest character in the font of the element is used to set the character grid.
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 derived from the dimensions of the parent object.

CSS information

Applies To	All elements
Media	visual
Inherited	no
Initial Value

Standards information

There are no standards that apply here.

Remarks

Microsoft Edge supports the unprefixed version (layout-grid-line) of this property.

The visual effects of the layout-grid-line attribute are similar to the line-height property.

Web documents in Asian languages, such as Chinese or Japanese, usually create a page layout for characters using a one- or two-dimensional grid. You can use the layout-grid attribute to incorporate this layout into Web documents.

The layout-grid-line attribute applies only to block-level elements.

Note For this property to have an effect, the layout-grid-mode attribute must be set to line or both.

Examples

This example uses the layout-grid-line attribute to specify character layout for a block of text.

HTML


<style>
  .layout { layout-grid-line: auto; }
</style>

<div class="layout">
  This is a block element containing a sentence of sample text.
</div>