- From: Eric A. Meyer <eric@meyerweb.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:24:44 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
At 2:38 PM -0600 1/21/08, David Hyatt wrote:
>Borders increase the span height (as does padding). If you put 1px
>top and bottom borders on a span in an attempt to "see where it is",
>then you just made a span box that is 2px taller. Therefore at a
>line-height of 1 (100px), there will be a slight overlap since the
>span boxes are a bit taller than the height of the line (102px).
Agreed. In the case we were discussing, though-- the first test
on
<http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/line-height/bigtext-spans.html>--
there is no padding on the spans, and at 'line-height: 1' there's a
more than a few pixels of overlap in Safari and IE.
--
Eric A. Meyer (eric@meyerweb.com) http://meyerweb.com/
Received on Monday, 21 January 2008 21:25:08 UTC