<blockquote> Possible Duplicate: What does this CSS shorthand font syntax mean? </blockquote> I saw many people doing that: <pre class="prettyprint"><code>body { font: bold 12px/13px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } </code></pre> What is this 12px/13px for?

12px is the font size and 13px the line height. Example of declaring all font properties in a one liner here. <hr> All this being said, I'll just add that this is a pretty unusual way of writing it and I wouldn't recommend it since it might confuse most developers.

What does 12px/13px do in css font declarations? [duplicate]

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Possible Duplicate:
What does this CSS shorthand font syntax mean?

I saw many people doing that:

body {
font: bold 12px/13px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

What is this 12px/13px for?

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asked Jan 04 '11 12:01

pedrozath

2 Answers

12px is the font size and 13px the line height.

Example of declaring all font properties in a one liner here.

All this being said, I'll just add that this is a pretty unusual way of writing it and I wouldn't recommend it since it might confuse most developers.

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