Re: line-height limitations

On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:57 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:

>> So in the limited case of David's stated problem, it does not sound like we need a new property. Instead, the problem can be easily solved by using ems for the line-height.
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> I suppose the rule would be something like:
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> ::first-line * { line-height:1em }
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> And you're right that would work.  You would lose some extra spacing above the ascent from discarding the built-in line spacing of the larger font though, although you would lose that with a "glyphs" value of line-box-contain as well.

Actually, what I meant is to change the UA stylesheet, so if, for example, it currently has this:

p { line-height:1.2; }

then instead you change it to this:

p { line-height:1.2em; }

Does this not fix the problem with little or no negative repercussions?

Received on Friday, 18 March 2011 22:09:14 UTC