Why Can't I Decrease the Line-Height of This Text?
This Is Very Odd: I Have a Few Lines of Text Wrapped in an Tag. No Matter What I Do, Lowering the Value for Line-Height Below 17Px Has No Effect. I Can Bump...
This is very odd: I have a few lines of text wrapped in an <em> tag. No matter what I do, lowering the value for line-height below 17px has no effect. I can bump the line-height up to greater than 17px and it'll apply, but I can't get it lower than 17px.
The CSS in question is:
#others .item em {
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 17px;
}
Try adjusting the line height both higher and lower and run the updated fiddle after each change, and you'll see what I mean.
Why would this be? No line-height is specified anywhere else in the CSS, so nothing is overriding it. That couldn't be the case anyway because I'm adjusting the line-height up and down within the same selector, so it doesn't make sense that a higher value would apply, but a lower value would get overridden.
6 Answers
Because the em tag is inline and its line-height cannot be lower than its parent div.
For example, if you set the line-height of the parent to 10px, then you would be able to decrease the line-height of em tag to 10px as well.
In order for line-height property to work, div should has display property equal to block
.app-button-label{
line-height: 20px;
display: block;
}
I was facing this problem with divs in mobile view - the line height was way too big and line-height wasn't working! I managed to make it work by adding "display:block", per advice here: Why isn't the CSS property 'line-height' letting me make tight line-spaces in Chrome?
Hope this helps anyone else facing the same problem in future
You seem to be using normalized css option in jsfiddle - which equates to the CSS rules being reset - ala
You can either reset the reset, or use a different reset if you really need it.
See here for more details:
The best way to do it is using css reset.
Write your own or use popular one like
The simplest way is to specify the line height with a higher priority, for example you could write: line-height: 14px !important;
If it is still not working set high priority in both where you u would like to decrease the line height (inline css) and also put in the body css .. remember the high priority (!important;) because it overrides any other unknown css rules.
Hope this helps
Ahmed
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