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title: CSS Text Spacing
description: "## Text Indentation The `text-indent` property is used to specify the indentation of the first line of a text: `p { text-indent: 50px; }` ## Letter Spacing The `letter-spacing` property is used to specify the space between the characters in a text. The following…"
url: "https://apprentice.mn/docs/css-text-spacing/"
updated: "2021-05-08"
category: CSS
---

# CSS Text Spacing

## Text Indentation

The `text-indent` property is used to specify the indentation of the first line of a text:

     `p {
  text-indent: 50px;
}`

## Letter Spacing

The `letter-spacing` property is used to specify the space between the characters in a text.

The following example demonstrates how to increase or decrease the space between characters:

     `h1 {
  letter-spacing: 3px;
}

h2 {
  letter-spacing: -3px;
}`

## Line Height

The `line-height` property is used to specify the space between lines:

     `p.small {
  line-height: 0.8;
}

p.big {
  line-height: 1.8;
}`

## Word Spacing

The `word-spacing` property is used to specify the space between the words in a text.

The following example demonstrates how to increase or decrease the space between words:

     `h1 {
  word-spacing: 10px;
}

h2 {
  word-spacing: -5px;
}`

## White Space

The `white-space` property specifies how white-space inside an element is handled.

This example demonstrates how to disable text wrapping inside an element:

     `p {
  white-space: nowrap;
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