What is the default height of elements?
I'm working with a web page that currently uses tags <br>
for markup and page layout, and I want to remove all of those tags and replace them with their CSS equivalent to make the page more readable from the screen.
As part of this process, I need to replace the break tags that are currently used for CSS-based padding interpolation.
Can anyone tell me what the default line break height is so that I can set my padding to equal that height and save a lot of time?
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A <br>
represents a line break. The line break height is determined by the current line height of the part of the document that contains the break item.
The default line height depends on a number of factors, including the browser you are using and the current font family. You can find the exact computed line-height for any given element in Chrome by checking the element, switching to the computed style tab and filtering for the property line-height
. In most browsers, you should be able to approximate this height with a length of about 1.2em
. For more information on units, em
see the section on relative length units from MDN.
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