Text Spacing

CSS Text Spacing

CSS has several properties to control text spacing.

In this chapter you will learn about the following properties:

• text-indent
• letter-spacing
• line-height
• word-spacing
• white-space

CSS Text Indentation

The CSS text-indent property is used to specify the indentation of the first line in a text-block.

Tip: Negative values are allowed. The first line will be indented to the left if the value is negative.

Example

p {
  text-indent: 50px;
}

CSS Letter Spacing

The CSS letter-spacing property is used to specify the space between the characters in a text.

Tip: Negative values are allowed.

Example

h1 {
  letter-spacing: 5px;
}

h2 {
  letter-spacing: -2px;
}

CSS Line Height

The CSS line-height property is used to specify the space between lines.

Note: Negative values are not allowed.

Example

p.small {
  line-height: 0.8;
}

p.big {

line-height: 1.8;
}

CSS Word Spacing

The CSS word-spacing property is used to specify the space between the words in a text.

Tip: Negative values are allowed.

Example

  p.one {
  word-spacing: 10px;
}

p.two {
  word-spacing: -2px;
}

CSS White Space

The CSS white-space property specifies how white-space inside an element is handled.

This property can have one of the following values:

• normal
• nowrap
• pre
• pre-line
• pre-wrap

Example

  p {
  white-space: nowrap;
}

The CSS Text Spacing Properties