a smaller line height. An effect similar to double spacing can be achieved by setting the line height to 2.0. This is too much for most cases, but it is some­times required.

Because this prop­erty spec­i­fies the minimum distance between the base­lines of the lines, an inline element with a larger line height or an inline image may cause lines to be farther apart than expected.

The word-spacing prop­erty

The word-spacing prop­erty enables you to adjust the amount of spacing between words. Each font has a normal word spacing – the amount of space that is put between words – that should be used in the ideal situ­a­tion (ideal according to the font’s designer). Browsers try to use this value. However, you may some­times want to achieve certain effects with your text by expanding or shrinking the word spacing.

There are two values:

• normal – Word spacing is left up to the browser. This is the default.
• Length – Either an abso­lute or rela­tive value.

Any length value is added to the normal word spacing; thus, 0 and normal mean the same thing.

word-spacing is an inher­ited prop­erty. The amount of word spacing is computed once for the parent element and the result is inher­ited by all of its chil­dren. The value is not computed again for its child elements even if they have a different font size. For example, if the current font size of the parent element is 10pt and the word spacing is set to 1em, its child elements will inherit a word spacing of 10pt no matter their font size.