CSS - Css Class For Limiting Characters On Line

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!

I've read several forums and know that the technique I'm trying to achieve is possible, however I can't seem to get it to work. Basically I'm trying to shift the background positions of both the list item I'm hovering over and the next list item. I'm sure its just a syntax error and not a logic error, anyways the code is below - any help would be greatly appreciated!

Code:

HTML Code

<div class="menu">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="#" class="search"></a></li>
        <li><a href="#" class="battery"></a></li>
        <li><a href="#" class="cart"></a></li>
        <li><a href="#" class="contact"></a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

CSS

.search, .contact, .cart, .battery
{
    width:100px;
    height:30px;
    margin-left:-1px;
    display:block;
}

.search
{
    background-image:url(Images/search.png);
}
.contact
{
    background-image:url(Images/contact.png);
}
.cart
{
    background-image:url(Images/cart.png);
}
.battery
{
    background-image:url(Images/battery.png);
}

ul li a.search:hover
{
    background-position:0px 60px;
}


ul li a.search:hover ul li a[class=battery]
{
    background-position:0px 60px;
}

Sorry for the lousy title, can't come up with better wording....

What I'm trying to say is can someone give me an example code of a css syntax that accept one css classname and add a few more properties to it under a different class name. Sort of like merging two classname into one.

Thanks...

HI all,
I've a problem. When my page is on hard drive it works fine. When I upload it to server, some characters screw up, such as three dots in a row.. and other punctuation. Take a look at the popup:
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Also.. any suggestions? My design is fairly whack..

Hi, I'm new to style sheets and hope someone can help
me with this question.
I can't figure out how to use special characters in a page
which refers to an external style sheet. I specifically need
to put in an accented "e", and it worked fine in another place
which is just an internal sheet, but in the externally referred
one it comes out as a gibberbox, looking like a chinese
character. I can only assume it has something to do with the
difference between the types of css, which is why I bother to
make reference to them, but I can't figure out how to get
that e to show up right.
Help much appreciated..
Maria

Is there an elegant way to style the index characters in ordered lists? I want the numbers I'm using to index my ordered lists to be the same height and color as the <h*> elements appearing next to them. I'm getting what I want by "turning on" what I want in the <li> element and then "turning off" what I've turned on in the parts of the list item whose heights and colors I do not want to change. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for your help.

Here's a snippet of the relevant code:

The xhtml:
Code:

<ol class="list-no-indent">
<li class="bb-color"><h3 class="no-margin-pad">An Item Heading</h3>
<span class="bb-color-off">A bunch of text</span></li>
<li class="bb-color"><h3 class="no-margin-pad">Another Item Heading</h3>
<span class="bb-color-off">A bunch more text</span></li>
</ol>

The style sheet:
Code:

.list-no-indent {
  padding-left : 1.5em;
  }

.list-no-indent h3 {
  text-size : 1em;
  }

.bb-color {
 	color : #f33;
 	font-weight : bold;
 	}
 	
.bb-color h3 {
 	font-size : 1em;
 	}

h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
 	color : #f33;
 	}

.bb-color-off {
 	color : #009;
 	font-weight : normal;
 	}

.no-margin-pad {
 	margin-bottom : 0;
 	padding-bottom : 0;
 	}

I am creating a website that uses English and Japanese characters. The default font size I use for English characters displays the Japanese characters too small. I would like the Japanese characters to display in a certain size whenever and wherever they appear. I can't simply use classes because I have English and Japanese appearing in the same elements a lot of the time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

In CSS, which would be more appropriate (or I suppose semantically correct) to use, p.text or .text p ? P representing the <p> tag, and "text" representing the class "text".

Any info or links to pages with info on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Problem solved.

So I want to create a really simple css file that uses a lot of the same styles. For example I may create a box that takes up two fifths of the page, and is floated left or right, similarly I may have a box that takes up three fifths, or four fifths etc.

The main thing here is that I'm thinking the specifics will be placed inside an ID like so:

Code:

#twoFifths {width:275px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 50px;}
#threeFifths {width:375px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 12px;}

And then to handle the float I'd use a class like so:
Code:

.floatRight{float:right;}
.floatLeft{float:left;}

Is this considered good practice? Obviously as I generate layouts I may want to float either right or left so having an ID for every single thing I may want to use would be a little overwhelming. The problem with this of course is that I can't call an ID twice in a page, and I can't have more than one class... so for example:

Code:

	<div id="templateBlueBox" class="floatRight">
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					</div>
					
	<div id="templateGreenBox" class="floatRight">
		<h2>New Features</h2>
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					</div>
				
	<div id="templateOrangeBox" class="floatRight">
		<h2>Sign up for email updates</h2>
		<p>So we can let you know when you can subscribe to get it every week.</p>
	</div>
					
	<div id="templatePinkBox" class="floatleft">
			<h2>Send us feedback</h2>
			<p>Is it the coolest thing ever (or is it just okay)? Tell us what you think!</p>
			</div>
					
	<div id="templateBlueBox" class="floatLeft">
		<h2>Submit photos</h2>
		<p>
		You can be part it..</p>
	</div>

So as you can see I'm having to repeat the id templateBlueBox. Is there a better approach for accomplishing this?

I am new to CSS and confused about when to use id # and when to use class .

Some enlightenment on the benefits/purpose of each would be helpful. I have read several tutorials - but the same pretty much the same to me so I must be missing something

Thanks!

I'm using ASP.NET 2.0 for my site. I already have a CSS that is working for the site; however, because an ASP.NET lable requires CSS Class, how do I convert my current CSS to a CSS Class? I know that a CSS class start with a period then a unique name. The problem is how do I implement the li, ul, a, and so on. Here is what I have that I want to convert to a CSS Class.

#nav {
padding: 0;
clear: both;
}
body.main #nav, body.blogger #nav {
float:right;
width: 220px;
\width: 250px;
w\idth: 220px;
margin: 10px 10px 0 0;
padding: 0;
}
body.second #nav {
float:left;
width: 200px;
\width: 210px;
w\idth: 200px;
padding:0 0 20px;
margin: 0;
}
body.second #nav img {
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
#nav a { color: #006; }
body.second #nav ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0 0 0 5px;
margin: 0;
}
body.second #nav ul li {
margin: 0 0 7px 0;
font-size: 11px;
}
body.second #nav ul li ul li { margin: 0 0 5px 15px; }
.skip { display:none; }
/* end #nav */

#content p, #nav p {
padding: 0;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 10px;
line-height: 140%;
}
#content li, #content ol {
margin-top: 0;
line-height: 140%;
}
code, pre { font-family:"Courier New", Courier, mono, monospace; }

/* definition lists, all that and a bag of chips! */
#content dl {
margin:0px;
padding:0;
}
#content dt { font-weight: bold; }
#content dd {
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0;
padding: 0 5px 0 0;
}
/* end definition list*/

Any help is appreciated.

When defining css in a webpage, it can be done using either a class or id. My understanding is that css uses . notation with classes and # notation with id's, regardless of whether the actual css is in the webpage itself of linked externally. Please correct me in error. My css uses classes and external . notation. When I use id's only and # notation exernally, I lose all my styling. Its only when I use the # notation internally that the styling works. In order to use external css I need to declare both a class and id and dot notation. Internally only an id. Is this correct behaviour?

Which is better to use id (#) in CSS or to use class (.) ??

does it affect website rank?

The book i am reading does not clear this up. When would you use class vs id to put elements in different catagories? why not use all id? It seems to make more sense.. ie. make all headers id="header"
and divs also class.

thank you in advance