Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd ...

Chapter 7: The Box ModelThe output in Figure 7-43c shows that the third paragraph stops growing vertically when the heightreaches 50 pixels. If only there were a property that could handle that overflowing text. Wait, there is!Stay tuned to the section on the overflow property for information on how to control overflowingtext.Figure 7-43cThe next section wraps up discussion of dimensions with the line-height property.The line-height propertyAs I mentioned in Chapter 6, the line-height property refers to the height of the line on which eachline of text appears. The line-height property and its possible values are outlined in the followingtable.Propertyline-heightValuenormal | | | initial value: normalThis property allows an explicit length to be defined for each line of text. Consider the CSS inFigure 7-44a and the markup in Figure 7-44b.Figure 7-44a269