CSS - Multiple Line Padding

I've got two lines of text. Want the spacing the two lines to increase, so I set a line-height. When I do this, not only does it increase space between the two lines, it also increases spacing above the first line (and maybe below the second). How can I increase spacing between the two lines only, without increasing above and below? Thanks!

Greetings,

I have a class called "header" and I am trying to give it a touch of extra space between it and the next line.

All of my headers are just a few words and thus on one line. I tried placing "line-height: 1.5em" in my "header" class and it shows up correctly in Dreamweaver but not in IE. My thought is, because it is only a single line, that class value does not kick in because there is no second line for that class.

Is there a way to conrol this in CSS or am I going to have to resort to using a....gulp.....spacer?

Thanks in advance!

Greetings,

I am relatively new to CSS and am using background image bullets. Problem is, in the case of a two line link, the bullet aligns in between the two lines and I need it to align to the top line. Below is the CSS, and attached is a screenshot of the link to better illustrate my predicament. Thanks for any help!

li
{
list-style-type: none;
background: url(../images/bullet.gif) no-repeat left;
padding: 0 0 0 10px;
}

I am noticing that padding changes the width/height of an object. For example, if I have a div element with a width of 100% and padding at 10px, it will actually cause the horizontal scrollbar on the browser to appear because it takes the 100% width into account, plus 20px for the padding on the left and right side. I thought padding was suppose to push elements inward.

??? Any help will be greatly appriciated.

I don't know exactly what to call what's going on, but i'm asuming that there is a padding issue with my menu.

I have a ul that contains my menu list. The CSS and xhtml are as follows: Code:

/* Menu */
li {
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	border-bottom: 0px none;
	display: inline;
	line-height: 14px;
	margin: 0px;
	margin-left: 1px;
	margin-right: 1px;
	padding: 0px;
	padding-left: 3px;
	padding-right: 3px;
}
ul#menu {
	background-image: url(img/menu.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 9px;
	list-style-position: inside;
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align: center;
	background-position: left bottom;
	vertical-align: text-bottom;
}
/* End Menu */


<ul id="menu"><li>Menu 1</li><li>Items 2</li>
<li>Will 3</li><li>Go 4</li><li>Here 5</li></ul>

(the menu is on one line, thanks to IE's whitespace issue, i broke it here for easier readablity.)

the problem is: i have it nestled on top of a div, and for some reason the ul has a 1px bit of padding on the bottom. I have searched the forum and may have missed some one posting a resolution for this, but i tried every one ov the voice-family/carrage return fixes i've seen, but none work.

to see what i'm talking about if my words are il formed (as they often are) click here.
to view the CSS click here.

Right now, there is nothing about padding located in css file. And I was told I should add a bit because my page is a headache to read. I was told:

"Basically you want to add more white space between the vertical line and the text"

How would I go about doing this? The site Im talking about is:
www.ohiocichlids.com

Around this dropdown image?
http://199.134.225.62/NW_PORTAL/sliding_menu/sliding_menu.cfm

I have padding and margins all set to 0...

Hey everyone, I am working on a new template:

http://4xp.net/temp.html

The colors are there just so I can see the divs, so don't worry.

If you look at the page in IE, it looks fine, with some padding between the green and orange div, and to the right of the orange div. When you look at it in Firefox, there is a bunch of white padding to the top and bottom of both the orange and green divs, and I can't seem to get it to go away. The weird thing is, if I add a 1px border to the orange div, the green div aligns to the top, and the orange background expands to fill in the white area above and below the orange div.

Does anyone know how to remove this padding?

Thanks!

Hi there,

I have 2 main divs.. one which holds a small ammount of content on the right hand side.. like a 'related links' box which is located at the top right of the page. The other div holds the content. It wraps around the top right div, but there is no padding to the right of the content area, so the text goes right the way up to the right hand div. How can I add some padding to the right of this area? I have added padding, but it adds it to the text where it wraps below the top right div.

This is the code I am using:

PHP Code:
#related_links{
width: 165px;
height: 237px;
background-image:  url('images/related_bg.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
float:right;
padding-right: 10px;

}

#related_inside{
padding: 10px;
}


#content{
padding-right: 10px;
}

#content_inside{
padding: 10px;

} 





PHP Code:
<div id="related_links"><div id="related_inside">right hand text</div></div>
    
    
    <div id="content">
    <div id="content_inside" >is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. <strong>Lorem Ipsum</strong> is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. <strong>Lorem Ipsum</strong> is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the   1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a   type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap   into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised   in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum   passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus   PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. </div></div> 

I am trying to get away from tables to get images in a formatted manor.

I have a div with a id giving each padding and margin element (left right, top, bottom) that sets them to 0px.

How can put a couple of images together (<img src="" /><img src="" />) in a div (or span) without having whitespace between them?

- Thanks for the help

- K

Hello,

Can anyone explain me why the texts in the following example are not in the same (relative) position? It looks like that in the first container, the margin is actually more than I specified (10px)...

I don't get it... :S

Thanks,
diodorus

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Title</title>

<style type="text/css">

#container{
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    width: 1000px;
    background: #ccc;
}

.block {
    background: #0ff;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 10px;
    text-align: left;
    width: 230px;
}

.block2 {
    background: #0ff;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    padding: 10px;
    text-align: left;
    width: 230px;
}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<p>First:<p>

    <div id="container">
        <div class="block">aaa</div>
        <div class="block">bbb</div>
        <div class="block">ccc</div>
        <div class="block">ddd</div>
    </div>

<p>Second:<p>

    <div id="container">
        <div class="block2">aaa</div>
        <div class="block2">bbb</div>
        <div class="block2">ccc</div>
        <div class="block2">ddd</div>
    </div>

</body>
</html>

Hey everyone,

I am working on an old design I started a while back, and for some reason, IE and Opera do not render the top padding right. I figured that it is a bug, but I am not sure. Here is my code:
css Code:
Original - css Code body { background-image: url( http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6097/blissxk5.png ); color: #000000; font-family: verdana,tahoma,"Bitstream Vera Sans",arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; padding: 0; margin: 0; } a img { border: 0; } a,a:link,a:visited,a:hover,a:active { color: #0099FF; text-decoration: underline; } a:hover { color: #FF9900; text-decoration: underline; } #container { width: 85%; margin: 0 auto; text-align: left; } #header { padding-left: 150px; } #menu { width: 100%; text-align: center; } #menu ul { list-style-type: none; display: block; } #menu li { display: inline; } #menu a { padding-left: 45px; padding-right: 45px; padding-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 15px; } #menu a:hover { opacity: .8 !important; background-color: #999999; color: #FFFFFF; } #main { opacity: .6 !important; filter: alpha(opacity=50); background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 1%; text-align: justify; } #main h1 { color: #0075FF; border-bottom: 2px solid #0099FF; display: block; width: 60%; } #footer { text-align: center; } #footer a { color: #000000; }

  

 body {


     background-image: url( http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/6097/blissxk5.png );


     color: #000000;


     font-family: verdana,tahoma,"Bitstream Vera Sans",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;


     font-size: 12px;


     text-align: center;


     padding: 0;


     margin: 0;


 }


 a img {


     border: 0;


 }


 a,a:link,a:visited,a:hover,a:active {


     color: #0099FF;


     text-decoration: underline;


 }


 a:hover {


     color: #FF9900;


     text-decoration: underline;


     


 }


 #container {


     width: 85%;


     margin: 0 auto;


     text-align: left;


 }


 #header {


     padding-left: 150px;


 }


 #menu {


     width: 100%;


     text-align: center;


 }


 #menu ul {


     list-style-type: none;


     display: block;


 }


 #menu li {


     display: inline;


 }


 #menu a {


     padding-left: 45px;


     padding-right: 45px;


     padding-top: 15px;


     padding-bottom: 15px;


 }


 #menu a:hover {


     opacity: .8 !important;


     background-color: #999999;


     color: #FFFFFF;


 }


     


 #main {


     opacity: .6 !important;


     filter: alpha(opacity=50);


     background-color: #FFFFFF;


     padding: 1%;


     text-align: justify;


 }


 #main h1 {


     color: #0075FF;


     border-bottom: 2px solid #0099FF;


     display: block;


     width: 60%;


 }


 #footer {


     text-align: center;


 }


 #footer a {


     color: #000000;


 } 

And also IE6+ do not seem to render the filter property. Anyone know whats going on with this?

Im running IE6 and its on an Intranet so for the moment Im only keen on getting it to work in IE5/6.

I have got the following HTML and CSS.

When I remove the CSS 'display: block; padding-bottom: 0px;' the links list views fine, but when I include it, the list spaces right out and I can't control the level of padding. Its really weird.. Im pretty sure this is where the error is but Im not exactly sure what it is.. I have not had problems in the past implementing a display type of BLOCK before, so not sure what is doing it now... Any ideas would be great...

Can post the whole template and assets if that helps...

Code:

<ul><li class="mainNav"><a href="about.htm" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1111120312_5,180,160,null,'navigation1');" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();">About Us</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"><a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1015140727_0,170,170,null,'navigation1');">Our Programs</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"> <a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1020105028_0,170,185,null,'navigation1');">Managing our People</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"> <a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1020115125_0,170,195,null,'navigation1');">Managing our Money</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"> <a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();"
onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1020121338_4,170,220,null,'navigation1');">Supporting our Business</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"> <a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1020121623_3,170,235,null,'navigation1');">Ministerial and Parliamentary</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"> <a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1020121709_2,170,255,null,'navigation1');">IT Systems & Support</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"> <a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1020121752_1,170,275,null,'navigation1');">Staff New & Events</a></li>
<li class="mainNav"> <a href="1.htm" onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1020121857_0,170,290,null,'navigation1');">Staff & Territory Offices</a></li>
</ul>

##############
CSS
li.mainNav {
	list-style: url('../images/common/navarrow.gif');
	margin-bottom: 5px;
	font-size : .80em;
	
}
li.mainNav a:link {
	display: block;
	padding-bottom: 0px;
	color: #283164;
	text-decoration: none;
}
li.mainNav a:visited{
	display: block;
	padding-bottom: 0px;	
	text-decoration: none;	
}
li.mainNav a:hover {
	display: block;
	padding-bottom: 0px;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
li.mainNav a:active {
	display: block;
	padding-bottom: 0px;
	text-decoration: underline;
}