[css-d] Space between paragraphs too large

2009-10-02 Thread Brian M. Curran
Hi, For my website I have: body { font-size: small; } and p { font-size: 92%; } and li { font-size: 92%; } The effect I'm getting on the site now is that the spacing between paragraphs and li items is too large for my liking. Is there a way to proportionally reduce the space? The site is

Re: [css-d] Space between paragraphs too large

2009-10-02 Thread David Laakso
Brian M. Curran wrote: Hi, For my website I have: body { font-size: small; } and p { font-size: 92%; } and li { font-size: 92%; } The effect I'm getting on the site now is that the spacing between paragraphs and li items is too large for my liking. Is there a way to proportionally

Re: [css-d] Space between paragraphs too large

2009-10-02 Thread Brian M. Curran
Brian M. Curran wrote: Hi, For my website I have: body { font-size: small; } and p { font-size: 92%; } and li { font-size: 92%; } The effect I'm getting on the site now is that the spacing between paragraphs and li items is too large for my liking. Is there a way to proportionally

Re: [css-d] Space between paragraphs too large

2009-10-02 Thread David Laakso
Brian M. Curran wrote: Brian M. Curran wrote: The site is www.locallaw11news.com Thank you for the reply. I was aware of that. I was wondering if there was a way to proportionally reduce the space, to match the 8% text size reduction? It seems that when I specified 92%

Re: [css-d] Space between paragraphs too large

2009-10-02 Thread Theresa Mesa
I'm a print person from way back before we were using these newfangled computers to do our work. I was also a typesetter. Serif fonts for body text are great for print, not so much for the web. Especially as small as you have the text. I'd have to really, really want to read the article to

Re: [css-d] Space between paragraphs too large

2009-10-02 Thread David Laakso
Brian M. Curran wrote: Lol, thank you. Good point, but look at the NY Times online. They don't go by the rule book either. Do you have a question for which you do not already have an answer? ~d __ css-discuss

[css-d] space between paragraphs

2005-06-27 Thread Eliana Berlfein
The space between paragraphs is much bigger on a PC than a Mac. Is there some way to control the space and make it more consistent? Thanks, Eliana - Eliana Berlfein Sidewalk Cafe Design The Art and Soul of Web Design 1920 13th Street,

Re: [css-d] space between paragraphs

2005-06-27 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:46:17PM -0600, Eliana Berlfein wrote: The space between paragraphs is much bigger on a PC than a Mac. Is there some way to control the space and make it more consistent? You could do p { margin-bottom: [some length]; padding-bottom: [some other

RE: [css-d] space between paragraphs

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Williams
From: Eliana Berlfein The space between paragraphs is much bigger on a PC than a Mac. Is there some way to control the space and make it more consistent? Set the top and bottom margins and padding to values that work nicely for your intended use and preferences. Different browsers may use

Re: [css-d] space between paragraphs

2005-06-27 Thread Felix Miata
Eliana Berlfein wrote: The space between paragraphs is much bigger on a PC than a Mac. Is there some way to control the space and make it more consistent? This is something set by the user agent. In Firefox the rule is thus: p {margin: 1em 0;} (res/html.css) The rule for Konqueror (KHTML)

Re: [css-d] space between paragraphs

2005-06-27 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: The space between paragraphs is much bigger on a PC than a Mac. Is there some way to control the space and make it more consistent? This is something set by the user agent. In Firefox the rule is

Re: [css-d] space between paragraphs

2005-06-27 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:04:04PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Wait, doesn't the page's author's CSS override the browser's CSS? Only when the author actually does it. He doesn't have to. But if the original poster was trying to figure out how to make her pages look good in multiple browsers,