{"id":2450,"date":"2009-05-20T06:21:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2022-11-24T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:37:23","slug":"how-to-fix-those-squishy-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-those-squishy-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Those “Squishy” Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here the CSS trick for fixing those squished headlines on your blog such as the H1 Heading shown in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n

\"Squished<\/div>\n

The original code in the CSS (cascading style sheet) for that H1 was as follows:<\/p>\n

#content h1 {
\n\tfont-size: 25px;
\n\tcolor:#036;
\n\tbackground: transparent;
\n\tfont-family: Verdana, ‘Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
\n\tfont-weight: bold;
\n\tmargin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
\n\tpadding: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
\n\t}<\/p>\n

To increase the height of the line, I added “line-height: 28px;” as shown in bold in the code below. Because the font size is 25px, I simply added 3 pixels to the line height to put some space in between the lines. <\/p>\n

#content h1 {
\n\tfont-size: 25px;
\n\tline-height: 28px;<\/strong>
\n\tcolor:#036;
\n\tbackground: transparent;
\n\tfont-family: Verdana, ‘Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
\n\tfont-weight: bold;
\n\tmargin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
\n\tpadding: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
\n\t}<\/p>\n

Alternatively, you can set the line height using a number value, e.g. “line-height: 1.2;<\/strong>” The standard line-height is 1, so 1.2 increases the line height. You can also shrink a line height by half as well by using the value 0.5… and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

Here's how the H1 Heading looked when I set the line height to 1.2.<\/p>\n

\"Unsquished<\/div>\n

The other alternative is to use a percent value, i.e. 100% is standard line height and 200% would double the size.<\/p>\n

OK, now go fix your headlines! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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