CSS leading

If you're a desktop publisher, you would be familiar with the term "leading". Applying leading to a paragraph of text adds space in between each line.

Fortunately you can use CSS to apply leading. The trick to remember is that there isn't actually a CSS 'leading' property. CSS has called it line-height.

To apply leading (or line-height) in CSS

<style type="text/css">
  p { line-height: 280% }
</style>

The above line-height declaration would result in body text with the following leading: