Forgive me for going way off topic here, but no better pool of minds to draw from than the Rev family ;-) I just couldn't help myself...
I'm just getting into CSS, it's great.. and I have one challenge I can't solve.
It is the universal default that block elements apply extra padding top and bottom... i.e. extra vertical white space.
Coming from a print world
<h4>Learn about Tropical Fruits<h4> <p>A paragraph about tropical fruits</p> <p>Another paragraph about papayas</p>
Should all have no extra space between them unless the designer specifically declares it with a a space before or after value applied to the paragraph formatting. And of course there is some minimal auto leading set as a percentage of the M height of the current font size.
I always cringed in web development when <h> elements forced a gaping horizontal "hole" across the page... in effect, it appears as the insertion of an unwanted blank line.... and was hoping with CSS there would be some way to overcome the extra vertical white space added to all block elements...
Of course, one can do stuff like this:
<p>A paragraph about tropical fruits<br /> <p>Another paragraph about papayas</p>
but then you lose separate style control over the two lines... email me off list if you know of a solution or a place to go on the web to find it... I have Dan Schafer's great book, HTML Utopia: Designing without Tables using CSS... but I can't get any combination of properties to "kill" the block elements' extra vertical default padding. The "height" property is too inflexible... because the content is dynamic and a single height value won't work if e.g. the text suddenly goes to three lines instead of two. I was hoping line-height=1 would work, and act like a print document layout program would=-provide the vertical white space required by the font height and no more. But, no go.
I'm guessing browsers have some kind of super high value for block element "auto-leading" that was established in the early days of the web and the question is how to defeat that?
TIA
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