line-height

Firefox not respecting line-height

The problem may appear in other browsers too, I haven't checked yet. Sorry but this will take some amount of work on your part. Please bear with me. Open Firefox. You need the Firebug extension or something that will let you run a single JS command. Go here. Sorry for all the anime. Open the Firebug console and run the following comma...

Problem with line-height and align

I have a element and it is possible that it is longer than one line, so i have to set a line-height>1 otherwise it looks crappy. But if i do that, the lines are higher than the text, and the text is centered. So it does not match the top. How can i change the position of the text to the top of the line, or is there another way to get so...

piped list using borders

Greetings, I'm used to implementing piped links (in an un-ordered list) and implementing the pipes using a 1px solid border to one side of each list item. However, I've encountered a problem with the above implementation while attempting to accommodate a request to make the border's height shorter than that of the text. In effort to do...

How can I obtain the Line Height of a GDI HFONT?

I'm adding SVG export support to an old application built with MFC and using plain old GDI. As SVG 1.1 doesn't support text wrapping, I am forced to do this manually. The application provides me with a CFont instance (which contains an HFONT). I can calculate the width of a piece of text using CFont::GetTextExtentPoint(), but I haven't ...

How to fix this kind of problem?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>test</title> </head> <body> <br /><br /><br /> <div style="line-height:150%"> <span...

What's the difference between line-height:1.5 and line-height:150% in css?

Anyone knows about it? ...

Baseline inconsistency in fonts between Firefox/Mac and Safari/Mac or Firefox/Win

Noticing a strange rendering anomaly in Firefox 3.5/3.6 (haven't tried other versions) in Mac OS X. Looking around, I've seen similar issues reported and addressed, but most were surrounding CSS line-height being set to normal as opposed to a unit measurement. Take the following code: <style> h1{ background-color:#f00; ...

aligning images with text

Hi, i want to center align an image of 18px height with text next to it. Here is the code i use: <div style="line-height:18px; font-size:12px;"> <img src="somepic.jpg" style="height:18px; vertical-align:middle;">Some text here </div> With that code, the div container is rendered with a height of 19px instead of 18px and text isn't cen...

CSS Line-Height Guide

I remember reading a style guide explaining what the proper line-height should be for each element. I can't find it on google. I would appreciate it if anyone could link me to such a guide, or perhaps explain it in an answer. Thanks! Edit: SORRY, please let me clarify. I'm not asking about how to use CSS to set line-heights, but what ...

Can you set a line-height for sIFR3 r-436?

I have tried setting a line-height for sIFR3 in both the sifr-config.js and my web stylesheet but neither seem to apply a line-height? ...

How to set PDF paragraph or font line-height with iTextSharp?

How can I change the line-height of a PDF font or paragraph using iTextSharp? ...

Webkit ignores vertical-align for inline-blocks containing line-boxes

When Webkit (Safari, Chrome) encounters an inline-block where... the line-height height is specified the content is rendered using multiple line-boxes ...the inline-block element ignores the specified vertical-align. To help illustrate the problem, I have a small test case: http://arther.net/lab/webkit-vertical-align-test.html#test ...

HTML Strict increases line height...

Hi Why does XHTML 1.0 Strict display a line height as appearing larger than a line height of the same value in XHTML 1.0 Transitional? This therefore pushing down content within table cells (i.e Hotmail in Firefox, Gmail in IE and Firefox). Has anyone else experienced this issue and know a way around it? Cheers Heres an example code ...

@font-face embedded font height troubles

Hi all, Having some trouble with the CSS alignment of text generated with @font-face. For some reason, there is a ton of extra space visible at the bottom of each letter, stretching the text's containing box too far downward. If you inspect the text on this sample page, you can see what I mean. Have googled and inspected a bunch of o...

safari returning value "normal" for "line-height" style

Here is my problem : when i call document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(Node, "").getPropertyValue("line-height") safari returns the string "normal" when no line-height is specified, whereas firefox always returns the value in pixels. This poses me a big problem, especilly because I didn't found a reliable formula to get the numeric va...

line-height vertical align font-face

I have the following markup: <div class="blockSection"> <h5>Title of the section</h5> ... </div> now, the h5 for the .blockSection has a fixed height and a background image, 40px. For aligning the text vertically i always set the line-height same as the height, since the text wont break in 2 or more lines. But the problem is i'm using...

How do I correct the line-height inconsistency on input elements between webkit browsers and Firefox?

Is there a line-height discrepancy in Firefox that would be affecting the line-height on this input element? http://cure.org/curekids/ You'll see in the signup form right in the middle of the page that my email a dress input field has the text vertically aligned very awkward, whereas in Chrome, Safari and IE (gasp) all is well. What's ...

jQuery/CSS: line-height of "normal" == ?px

I'm calling $("#foobar").css("line-height") and getting back "normal". How do I translate this to a pixel amount? Is "normal" defined in the CSS spec or is it browser specific? ...

Firefox line-height issue with input fields

I have realized the problem before but I guess it didn't matter as much then as it did now. What I discovered is that Firefox has a default line-height value of 1.2 for input fields which can not be changed. At least in OSX, don't have Windows so I can't confirm it there. I did some experimenting and testing and there's just no way to ...

How to dynamically change <li> style without affecting other <li>s?

Hi, I have an unordered list of links. <ul> <li><a href="#">Link is really really really really LONNNNNNNG</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Link</a></li> </ul> I have set the line-height or the list items to 30px. ul {width:100px;} ul li {line-height:...