On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:40:56 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Angela French to my mailbox:
> > Angela French wrote: > > Benjamin - I am trying your approach to just style my h2 with a > > background color. It is definitely get there, but it makes the > > height > of > > the color block too "tall", putting extra padding in below the > > actual > h2 > > text. Since one can't make negative padding, it seems setting a > height > > to the h2 is the only way to size the color block the way I want. Is > > this the most appropriate way of getting the block of color to be > > the size I want? > > Given you can't ultimately control the size of the H2 text, what size > _do_ you want? (i.e. why are you trying to enforce a particular height > at all?) > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > > It isn't a matter of controlling the size of the h2, but of the margin > beneath it. The 'line-height' property may be what you need. Set padding and margin to zero. Line height will center on the middle of the font vertically and does not require units be specified. 1 is font height and 1.5 is font height with 0.25 above and 0.25 below. A setting of about 1 or 1.1 may achieve your aim. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
