Why can't I decrease the line-height of this text?
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This is very odd: I have a few lines of text wrapped in an <em>
tag. No matter what I do, lowering the value for line-height
below 17px has no effect. I can bump the line-height
up to greater than 17px and it'll apply, but I can't get it lower than 17px.
The CSS in question is:
#others .item em {
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 17px;
}
Try adjusting the line height both higher and lower and run the updated fiddle after each change, and you'll see what I mean.
Why would this be? No line-height
is specified anywhere else in the CSS, so nothing is overriding it. That couldn't be the case anyway because I'm adjusting the line-height
up and down within the same selector, so it doesn't make sense that a higher value would apply, but a lower value would get overridden.
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