4.1.4. Word Spacing and Letterspacing
The concepts here are fairly simple:word and letterspacing are ways of inserting or reducing spacebetween either words or letters. As usual, though, there are somenonintuitive issues to consider with these properties; first,let's talk about the spaces between words.
be equivalent to normal, and
700 corresponds to bold. The
other numbers do not match up with any other values for
font-weight, but they can correspond to common
variant names. If there is a font variant labeled something such as
"Normal," "Regular," "Roman," or
"Book," then it is assigned to the number
400 and any variant with the label
"Medium" is assigned to 500. However,
if a variant labeled "Medium" is the only variant</P>
Figure 5-12. Moving up the weight scale
In the last two nested elements, the computed value of font-weight is increased because of the liberal use of the keyword bolder. If we were to replace the text in the paragraph with numbers representing the font-weight of each element, we would get the results in Figure 5-13:
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padding-topIE4 P/P IE5 P/Y NN4 B/B Op3 Y/-This property sets the size of the toppadding of an element, and this padding will "inherit"the element's background. Negative values are not permitted.
Example
text-alignIE4 Y/P IE5 Y/Y NN4 Y/P Op3 Y/-This sets the horizontal alignment ofthe text in an element, or more precisely, defines to which side of