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Controlling Space between Letters

Finally, CSS allows you to adjust the amount of space between the letters in an HTML element with the letter-spacing attribute, as Figure 49.5 shows. Like the word-spacing attribute, letter-spacing adds its value to the browser's default, and it accepts negative values to decrease the default amount of space between letters.

Figure 49.5. Use the letter-spacing attribute to increase (or decrease) the default amount of space between letters in an element.

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In a style definition, letter-spacing looks something like this:

letter-spacing: 1px;

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