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Line-height affecting spacing above first line
I've got two lines of text. Want the spacing the two lines to increase, so I set a line-height. When I do this, not only does it increase space between the two lines, it also increases spacing above the first line (and maybe below the second). How can I increase spacing between the two lines only, without increasing above and below? Thanks!
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Please show us your code.

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<div style="width:150px; line-height:30px; background-color:#ccc; padding:0; margin:0;">Notice how there is additional space between the first line of text and the top of the div.</div>
<p></p>
<div style="width:150px; background-color:#ccc; padding:0; margin:0;">With no line-height specified, there is almost no space between the first line of text and the top of the div.</div>

I don't want the space above the first line of text.
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To do that you would have to manually split them.

Why do you want to do that anyway?
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To do that you would have to manually split them.
Ok, so no way to do it with CSS.

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Why do you want to do that anyway?
I don't want to manually split them. The extra spacing just looks bad with the layout I'm working with. It's basically unwanted padding.
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Why can't you split them?

Or you could add a negative top margin.
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Or you could add a negative top margin.
That's not a bad idea. Thanks.
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