letter-spacing Attribute | letterSpacing Property

Sets or retrieves the amount of additional space between letters in the object .

Syntax

HTML Scripting

{ letter-spacing : sSpacing }

object . style.letterSpacing [ = sSpacing ]

Possible Values

sSpacing

Variant that specifies or receives one of the following values.

normal	Default. Default spacing.
length	Floating-point number, followed by an absolute units designator ( cm , mm , in , pt , pc , or px ) or a relative units designator ( em or ex ). For more information about the supported length units, see CSS Length Units Reference .

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: currentStyle . The property has a default value of normal . The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attribute is inherited.

Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties .

Remarks

When specified as a positive length value, the letter-spacing attribute adds the specified value to the default spacing between characters within an element. A negative length value decreases the space between characters. Letter spacing can be influenced by justification.

Examples

The following examples use the letter-spacing attribute and the letterSpacing property to change the space between letters.

This example uses blockQuote as a selector to change the spacing to -0.2 millimeters for all blockQuote objects on the page.

<STYLE> BLOCKQUOTE { letter-spacing :-0.2mm } </STYLE>

This example uses inline scripting to set the spacing to 1 millimeter when an onmouseover event occurs.

Standards Information

This property is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 1 (CSS1) .

Applies To

PRE Platform Version

Win16:	4.0
Win32:	4.0
Windows CE:	4.0
Unix:	4.0
Mac:	4.0

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