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Is it possible to like adjust the height of <br>or use a different command for it? Right now when you use <br> it's like pressing enter once.

Using CSS
br {
display: block;
margin: 10px 0;
}
or
margin-top: 10px;
from
How to change the height of a <br>?

Try using line-height: on the actual text. This should make the space between the lines bigger or smaller depending on the value you specify on your lets say <p> or other text element.
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Controlling the "top half" of line-height

let me show the code for this webpage first and try to explain what I am asking.
h1 {
border: solid;
padding-top: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
}
body {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0;
}
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>Practice1</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample H1 Header</h1>
</body>
</html>
What I am trying to accomplish is to have the H1 header just barely touch the top and bottom borders that surround it.
Now, I am aware that the issue is line-height. Since I have a descending character (the "p" in "Sample H1 Header"), the bottom half is just right. However, the top half isn't.
I don't even understand why the default line-height has that extra space on top? I understand the bottom for descending characters like "p" and "q", but what characters require the extra space on the top? So understanding this, I guess, is my first question.
The second question is how to change the top half in my example so that the "Sample H1 Header" just barely touches the border I defined. I can change the h1 css to line-height: .7; and that will give me what I am looking for....expect then my poor "p" is sticking outside. So I want to keep the line-height on the bottom half at the default, but change it just on the top. In other words, how can I control the top and bottom half portion of line-height independent of each other?
I did find one solution. That's using the following in combination with the H1 header.
line-height: .7;
padding-bottom: 7px;
That gives me the look I am accomplishing. The problem with that solution, though, is I need to seem to adjust it manually if I decide to later change font-families and sizes. I would like something more automatic that I can simply apply whenever I need it without having to measure and modify for each case. Any ideas?
Or is there a way I can just turn "off" the top half of line height or have it adjust automatically to the tallest capital letter of the font and size I am using?
Thanks!
as we know every font has their own vertical space. So if you want only vertical space of font inside the border then you have to make line-height same as the font-size.
h1 {
line-height: 36px;
font-size: 36px;
}
Some font have more vertical space at top so you have to manage that space using padding as required.
Every font has their own vertical space which is exactly define the line height so the solution which you have is the best for the case .

how to set button background such that it takes up height and width of parent div? what css property affects which dimension?

please check out the codes first:
html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>hello</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="menu">
HOME
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
css:
#container
{
width: 80%;
margin: auto;
height: 450px;
}
#menu
{
background-color: #1b9359;
height: 25%;
}
.button
{
text-decoration: none;
float: left;
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
line-height: 115px;
margin-left: 20px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
.button:hover
{
background-color: #2cd282;
}
so what i would like to acheive is that when i hover to the home button, the whole div changes color, and does not get distorted or mispositioned on zoom. one answer told me that i could use display: block, but that it does not work as you can see. however, i did manage to make it work with display: block when the menu pane is like a vertical column and not a horizontal one. could anyone pls explain why this happens, and how display property of css affects that element? and how to achieve the full highlight without zoom distortion?
If you use percentages as your height and/or width then it will be a percentage of the parent container.
If you want your page to behave well when using a zoom, ie. ctrl + mouse wheel up or down, size everything in your page using em. 1 em = 16px by default. Just get used to using em. Get a calculator out and start converting things. Trust me, it's worth it to have a page that zooms straight in in out without jumbling.
Your outermost container may use percentages as long as you're using an auto margin for the central contents this is an exception to using em, that way things will still be centered on all resolutions. When I say outermost container, I mean body...
Before I tell you how to make it work I'll answer the other questions:
"...I did manage to make it work with display: block when the menu
pane is like a vertical column and not a horizontal one. Could anyone
pls explain why this happens, and how display property of css affects
that element?"
Block elements stack on top of each other vertically. This means that in a vertical arrangement if the zoom level is changed, those elements are perfectly at home taking that extra space up to the right side. Now, if they are intended to be lined up horizontally, display block will not work because that is simply just not what it does. Display inline-block will stack them horizontally preserving heights and widths set for the container, and to my own dismay, adding tiny margins between elements unlike the use of float, which would be touching the previous element, but float is definitely not something I would recommend for a nav menu.
Let's say you have your first link, and it is display:block. It will start its own new horizontal line, assuming there is not a float:(side) item before it with extra space to fill. In that case, you would add clear:both(or :left/:right) to overcome this. Now let's say you want to add a second link to the right of the first one which is display:block. The second one could be display:inline-block, and it would be on the same level as the first one, but if you did this the other way around, the second one, which is display:block, would start on its own new line below.
Now, to make your button do what you want it to do:
I will assume for the purpose of giving you a good answer that screen width in pixels is 1280px. So 80% of that is 64em. That is (1280px * .80)/16px = 64em because 1em = 16px. As I mentioned before, we do this to make your site elastic when it zooms.
You've previously designated #container as height:450px; So let's convert that. 450px/16px = 28.125em (em values can go to three decimal places, but no more) This is good, so we have an exact conversion, and not a rounded value.
container is now finished and should be as such:
#container
{
width: 64em;
margin: auto;
height: 28.125em;
}
Next change height in #menu. You have it as height:25%. That is 25% of 450px/or/28.125em If we leave it at 25% it will mess up the zooming. So let's convert. 28.125em/4 = 7.03125em
This time we must round to 3 decimal places. So we get 7.031em.
menu is now finished and should be as such:
#menu
{
background-color: #1b9359;
height: 7.031em;
}
Next is your button class.
.button
{
text-decoration: none;
float: left;
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
line-height: 115px;
margin-left: 20px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
At this point I lose some of my own certainty about how CSS will react, but I will start with this. Do not use float:left and Display:anything together. In this case, use display:inline-block. Get rid of the float:left. I am not sure why you have a line-height set. I am guessing it is your way of attempting to set a height for your button because it is 2.5px larger than the height of #menu (line-height of .button = 115px, height of #menu = 112.5px which we have already converted to 7.031em). If that's what you're trying to do you're doing it wrong. get rid of line height, and make it the same height as its container so that it fills it. height:7.031em;
I'll assume if you're making a horizontal menu, that you aren't trying to make one button take up the entire width. If you do not give it a width, it will fill the whole row. I'll be bold and guess you probably want your button somewhere in the ballpark of twice as wide as it is high. Let's just go with 15em(240px). width:15em;
Last is margin-left... 20/16 = 1.25em. Cake.
Now we have:
.button
{
text-decoration: none;
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
height: 7.031em;
width:15em;
margin-left: 1.25em;
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
Keep in mind that block elements, whether inline or not, have little built-in margins on top of the margin-left that you've added.
If you make these changes, your page should zoom beautifully and your link will fill out its container vertically, but be a specified width to keep it clean. Never use px or percentages if you want to avoid zoom slop. The body container is 100% by default, but it holds everything and therefore the things in the center seem to grow outward toward the edges and therefore do not show any visible effect from the body not being set based on em, and it also makes the page naturally friendly with a variety of screen resolutions.
I hope this helps.
Edit:
As I mentioned, I lost some of my certainty. The line:
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
Does something that makes the container be larger than 7.031em removing that line fixes the problem, but I do not know the remedy if you insist on a font size of 1.2em. I tried setting height to 6.831em instead of 7.031em and it did not do the trick.
A few more tips:
1) If you still feel that you need a margin, perhaps margin-right would better suit you so you don't have random slack space to the left.
2) The CSS I provided does not adjust for the vertical alignment of your link text; to fix it add line-height:7.031em; to the .button class. Note: this method only words with single lines of text!!!

What is the way to place the two divs on the exact same line?

I used two divs...
One for displaying images....
One for displaying text...
With the first div, I set background-image property for setting background-image...
And of course set the display property as an inline...
But the thing is they are on the same line, but not exactly the same line...
<div class="div_with_image"></div>
<div style="display:inline">Text</div>
this is css file
.div_with_image{
background-image: url(../beacon/images/icon-plus.png);
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
}
But image shows up like slightly upper than the text... and I can't solve it out...
I need your help...
Thanks, Zac.
that is due to line-height.
If you add height to an element where exactly does the text inside of it lie? That is,
if you have a block of text that is font-size: 10px (a theoretical height:10px) inside a container that is 60px where exactly is the text going to end up?
Most surely at the top of the container, because the text can only position itself where the text flows, inside a height:10px space.
But you can overcome that by using a line-height value the same height as the container, this way the text will take in the vertical-align property and align itself properly
Courtesy: Andres Ilich
Why dont you just use float on both?
Html code:
<div class="div_with_image"></div>
<div style="float:left;">Text</div>
Css code:
.div_with_image{
background-image: url(../beacon/images/icon-plus.png);
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
cursor: pointer;
float:left;
}
Have you tried to float the elements instead of using inline-block?
If you insist on inline-block, sometimes the end-start tags need to be on the same line:
<div class="div_with_image"></div><div
style="display:inline">Text</div>
Ugly, and I'm trying to find the question with a million upvotes that addresses this (this one?), but sometimes necessary. I think comments work too, if I recall.
you can try adding style="float:left" to both divs.
use float:left
<div class="div_with_image"></div>
<div style="float:left">Text</div>
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How to move text up using CSS when nothing is working

I want to move the text displayed at the bottom of the page slightly upwards and have tried almost everything i know and google but can't shift the text upwards to display the remaining clipped text.
Attached is a ScreenShot of the same
Please suggest that what can be done to accomplish this task
you can try
position: relative;
bottom: 20px;
but I don't see a problem on my browser (Google Chrome)
try a negative margin.
margin-top: -10px; /* as an example */
footerText {
line-height: 20px;
}
you don't need to start playing with position or even layout of other elements... use this simple solution
used the following snippet and it worked fine..
.smallText .bmv-disclaimer {
height: 40px;
}
Your footer container is constricting the width of the inner element with an explicit width on itself, which sees the text clipped at the end and wrapped onto a new line, so change that:
div#fv2-footer-container {
width: 1090px;
...

HTML: Change height of <p>

How do I specify the height of the blank line that inserting a <p> creates?
In your style sheet, or style sheet section, define this: (example)
p { margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; }
You can also specify it in the individual tag <p style="margin-top:.....">
Use CSS to mark the line height for something. E.g.:
p{
line-height: 1.4;
}
That is for lines of text. To make a margin (The room between the and everything else) define it like this.
p{
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
That will adjust the blank space in each direction (accordingly).
I'd like to note that changing the margin of a single line doesn't help, so one may not see the effects in the browser as quickly as they expect. For example:
<p style="margin-bottom:50px">line 50</p>
<p style="margin-top:100px">line 100</p>
results in the margin of 100 px between these lines. 50px margin overlaps the bigger one and the bigger value is the actual margin. Reducing bottom margin of the first line doesn't change anything, as well as increasing it to the value <=100px. So this works differently than line spacing before and after in text editor.
Tested in Firefox with Firebug, where yellow area denotes margins.
change the top and bottom margin heights.