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Gina Bégin
Courses Plus Student 8,613 PointsLine-heights, margins, paddings... oh my!
I noticed someone about 4 months ago asked a similar question, and I reviewed this great video from Treehouse that explains margins and paddings (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-foundations/the-box-model/the-css-box-model-concept-3) but what I'm wondering is, at :30 in the video, he applies line-height to the h1 tag and says that it is mostly used for spacing of a line in a paragraph, relative to the other lines. I can't see another use for it, since if it's a single word by itself, padding or margin would take care of it, right? If that's the case, then why is it useful to apply to to the h1 tag (am I using the correct semantic there, btw?) when it's not in a paragraph, but a single line by itself?
1 Answer
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherGina;
The line-height property defines the amount of space above and below inline elements. That is, elements that are set to display: inline or display: inline-block. This property is most often used to set the leading for lines of text.
You can read more specifics about the line-height property at the Mozilla Developer's Network.
Ken