[thelist] clarification on strange css property please

[Steve Cook]

Looking at the definition for the font directive in the O'Reilly book, I
found that it is a way of specifying the line height.

Specifying 1.2 in it's own specifies it relative to the font size. So it is
a scaling factor.

So if we have a font size of 12px then the line height is 12px * 1.2 = 14.4

Cool huh?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scarlett Julian (ED) [mailto:Julian.Scarlett at sheffield.gov.uk]
> Sent: den 20 mars 2002 15:14
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> Subject: [thelist] clarification on strange css property please
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have just opened up someone's css and found this in there
>
> FONT: 12px/1.2 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>
> I am a bit puzzled by the 12px/1.2 shorthand - can anyone
> shed some light
> for me? It seems to be saying that the size is either 12px or
> 1.2 something
> or am I reading this wrong?
>
> tia
>
> Julian
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