How to specify the line height of a text using a number value with CSS

The code example below shows you how to specify the line height of a text using a number value with CSS.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>

<style type="text/css">
p.one
{ line-height: 1; }
p.two
{ line-height: 0.5; }
p.three
{ line-height: 2; }
</style>

</head>
<body>
<p class="one">
Most web browsers, if not all, have a line-height with a default number value of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1.
</p>
<p class="two">
This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5.
</p>

<p class="three">
This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2.
</p>
</body>
</html>

The code example above makes the paragraphs below.

Most web browsers, if not all, have a line-height with a default number value of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1. This paragraph has a line-height of 1.

This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5. This paragraph has a line-height of 0.5.

This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2. This paragraph has a line-height of 2.

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