14.4. Letter and Word Spacing

The letter-spacing and word-spacing properties can be used to control an element's letter spacing and word spacing, respectively. Both properties take absolute or relative values—positive values add space; negative values remove space.

For example, consider the following code and output shown in Figure 14-8, which illustrates three different letter-spacing values:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <title>Letter Spacing</title>
  <style type="text/css">
    .normal { letter-spacing: normal; }
    .tight  { letter-spacing: -.2em; }
    .loose  { letter-spacing:  .2em; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Normal</h3> <p class="normal">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit obortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p> <h3>Tight</h3> <p class="tight">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit obortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p> <h3>Loose</h3> <p class="loose">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi ...

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