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:
There is no "CSS leading" property - the CSS specification uses the line-height property to apply leading. Leading gives the impression of lines of text being closer together or further apart.