Who knew? Not me! I’ve had my own domain for over a year, and CSS is still a mystery to me. A blog friend asked me if I knew how she could double-space her post text, and I suggested she contact another friend of ours who creates blog themes.

Turns out that what we think of as “spacing”, a holdover from typewriter days, is actually padding coded in between the lines of text. Like this:

In your style.css file, look for this part:

div#blog #blog_left .text{
color:#7f7f7f;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:11px;
line-height:24px;
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:5px;
padding-left:3px;
}

Change the line height to 15px.

Now look for this part (it’s down just a little).

Quote:
div#blog #blog_left .text p{
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
}

Change the padding to 5px. That’s it.

One of these days, CSS is going to make sense to me, I just know it