I am having difficulty reducing the spacing between lines of text with CSS line-height (or height – I’ve tried both).
I have a small bit of text and the spacing is off. I’ve tried modifying the styles that (appear to) apply, and also enclosing the text in a <span>...</span> and explicitly declaring the style. Nothing seems to work.
The site is a WordPress site using the Pagelines “lite” theme. The URL is http://stage.dsthree.com and the issue is on the front page (you can see it in the fourth column of text, just below the “email subscribe” box in the small text – the line spacing for that text is off. This site will not allow me to post a screenshot, as I am new here.
I’ve reduced the line-height to 1% and to 1px to no effect.
Any help, directions or suggestions on how to reduce the whitespace is much appreciated!
Inline elements don’t honour properties such as
line-height; they take on the line height of the nearest block parent.See Fiddle
Solution: remove the line-height from the body, or turn the span into a block (i.e. make it a div; don’t give
display:blockto the span).Add
display:block& removeheight.You learn more about
display:blockproperty here.You have a
line-height: 21px;In the body. Remove this, and it should work.