Re: line-height limitations

line-box-contain is basically perfect, so I'll just go with that for now.

dave

On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> 2011/3/16 Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>:
>> How about something that said not to take the glyph size and font leading
>> into account at all for line box height calculation, unless it us the only
>> thing on the line and needs to be an input into line-height (for em line
>> height, for example). Then it could also maybe solve the problem of
>> vertical-align:sup creating a big gap between two lines.
> 
> Nah, you want it to take the height of the large letter into account,
> just not the nonexistent descender.
> 
> Something to keep in mind is that you do *not* want an entire line of
> text to shrink just because you happened to not use any letters with
> descenders on that line.  Hyatt's first suggestion is good in this
> respect, because it uses the line-height of the root inline box as a
> base and then just limits how much it can grow.
> 
> ~TJ
>

Received on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 21:08:45 UTC