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CSS CSS Basics (2014) The Box Model The CSS Box Model

Kaycee Harris
Kaycee Harris
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Posted by Kaycee Harris
Kaycee Harris
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Padding and line-height

What the difference between padding and line-height? They sorta seem the same to me, can someone please explain the difference?

1 Answer

meisloafer
meisloafer
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meisloafer
meisloafer
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line-height:

It's commonly used to set the distance between lines of text.

padding:

It sets the space area on all four sides of an element

  • line-height we use for text (Line Spacing in Word)
  • padding we use for top/right/bottom/left space (Margins in Word)