Html single space between lines

Working with text in CSS3 allows for a lot of control. Not only are you able to use a wide variety of fonts, you are able to set the way the fonts are viewed. In this article, you will learn how to set single line spacing with text.

The property that allows you to choose single line spacing is line-height. There a few options available to you with this approach. You can control the line-height property with the following:

  • the keyword normal

normal

Many desktop browsers use a default value of roughly 1.2, depending on the element’s font-family.

This value is multiplied by the element's own font size. This is the recommended way to set the line-height because it avoids problems with inheritance.

This is used to calculate the line box height.

The computed value is the multiplied by the element's computed font size. Note: percentage and em values can create unintended results.

Here is an example of the code you would use:





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This is a paragraph without line-height applied.
This is a paragraph without line-height applied.

This is a paragraph with a small number for the line-height.
This is a paragraph with a small number for the line-height.
This is a paragraph with a small number for the line-height.
This is a paragraph with a small number for the line-height.

This is a paragraph with a bigger number for the line-height.
This is a paragraph with a bigger number for the line-height.
This is a paragraph with a bigger number for the line-height.
This is a paragraph with a bigger number for the line-height.

And here is what the finished text looks like. As you can see, you have a lot of control over the text and spacing. This is particularly important when working with mobile devices, where text spacing issues could easily become a problem.

Html single space between lines

Outside of single line spacing, there are many other things you can do, such as changing the font size, the font itself, styles, set upper/lower case, change font color, get text to wrap around images, text overflow, word wrapping and more, which we will cover in future articles.

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Html single space between lines

Tremaine Eto

Nov 20, 2020

3 min read

Html single space between lines

This is one of those things you either know or you don’t. If you’re at this point, there’s nothing but good news: if you already know how to adjust the space between lines of text using HTML and CSS, then you’re done reading, and if you don’t, then keep reading and you will.

When coding html pages for a website, the line spacing of the text content is probably one of attributes that is usually left as default. Most of the time, you do not even think about it and the default works the best in most browsers.

The line spacing or line height is the vertical height between lines of text in a rendered html page. Almost always this spacing value is set to an appropriate value by the browser or the rendering engine. This value is usually dependent on the font of the rendered page, resolution of the page and several other factors.

Having said that it rarely needs to be changed, once in a while you do run into situations where you would want to change this property. You might find that the font you are using creates either too little or too much line height by default. It might also be a special requirement, for example the lines needs to separated more than usual for emphasis.

First of all, let us see what the default is that is used by most browsers. In most modern day browsers, the line spacing is usually set to either 110% or 120% of the pixel size or font size. This works great in almost all cases, making the text legible enough to be read.

In order to modify the line spacing, you will typically use the cascading style sheet (css). The CSS property that handles this is named line-height and can be used with most HTML tags that surrounds the text on the webpage.

Html single space between lines

You can specify the value for line-height just as you would specify any other size in CSS, either as a number, pixel size or as a percentage. Just as any other style you can specify them at any tag level, using any of the css techniques. You can inline it as well, if needed. In this post, we will use the style attribute of the p tag as examples, but you can use it in other tags as well such as body, span or div.

Using Relative Numbers

When you specify the values as a number, it is based of the current font size as the base. The current font size is multiplied by the number that you specify to calculate the line height or space between lines.

Paragraph content here

You can also use other methods for specify the values, such as em, rem, pt etc. As an example, let’s see how to use px or pixel size.

Using Percentages

When you use percentages, it works similar to using the relative numbers. It is based of the current font size of the element. The percentage is actually a different way of specifying the relative size equivalent to the relative number.

Paragraph content here now has a spacing equivalent to 1.34

If you want to reduce the height, then you would use a value that is less than 100% (or less than 1 in the relative number method). An example would be

Paragraph content here has a spacing equivalent to 0.85.

Using em unit

Another unit you can use is the em unit. Here the size is calculated relative to the font size of the element.

paragraph content here will have spacing twice that of the element's font size.

Using rem unit

Another relative unit that you can use is the rem, which is similar to em unit in the above example, but the value is computed based on the font size of the root element, not the size of the current element. This can be pretty handy to deal with nested tags that modify the font sizes.

The paragraph content is spaced three times the size of the root font size.

Using pixel size

You can also specify the line height using the pixel size. This makes the spacing independent of the font that is being used, which may not always be a great idea.

Paragraph content here

As you would expect, negative values are not allowed in the line-height property. As a rule of thumb, always try to use either of the unit less values (percentage or number). This gives it some flexibility when it comes to different fonts that might be used. This also works well with different resolutions of the devices where your webpage might be viewed.

Although I have used the inline style as example, you can very well use the same syntax in the CSS (cascading style sheets) files or any place you defined styles.

As I mentioned, the default works the best in most cases. Make sure to test your webpage rendering in as many devices and browsers as possible.

How do I make one space between lines in HTML?

HTML Break (
) Tag
If you want to prevent a line break between two words, use a non-breaking space. If you want to insert a line break, use the HTML break tag, written as
. You don't need a closing tag here — just writing
adds a line break.

How do you do 1.5 spacing in HTML?

Those who need the line spacing to be set to 1.5 should use line-height: 1.5 . And if you want the spacing to return to its original value (before you messed with it), use line-height: normal .

Is single line spacing 1?

Line spacing is the space between each line in a paragraph. Word allows you to customize the line spacing to be single spaced (one line high), double spaced (two lines high), or any other amount you want. The default spacing in Word is 1.08 lines, which is slightly larger than single spaced.

How do you put a space between lines?

Go to Home > Line and Paragraph Spacing. Choose the number of line spaces you want or select Line Spacing Options, and then select the options you want under Spacing.