Re: CSS line-height frustrates font size overrides

I agree.

I think a good compromise could be that if designers need to use 
absolute sizes for font-size, they should at least use em lengths for 
their line-height, so if the browser were to change the absolutely set 
font-sizes, the line-heights would scale accordingly.

I myself am trying to avoid setting absolute sizes for my text, but bad 
habits die hard ;)

On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 05:57  PM, David Woolley wrote:

>
> A problem I'm beginning to notice is that people are using pixel
> values for line-height, based on their under sized fonts.  That
> means that if one disables font sizes in IE, to get round the
> undersized fonts (something I've had permanently set for a few months
> now), the vertical spacing becomes so low as to make the text
> difficult to read, or even becomes negative.  You are then forced
> to choose between font size and line height problems.
>
> I'm not sure what the user agent rules say, but I think user agents
> should consider line-height to be in the same category as font-size,
> when disabling the latter.  Authors shouldn't, of course, use such
> absolute sizes.
>