Hemingway Rewritten Line Spacing

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  mcorlett · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 6:03 pm

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  Switching from the 20-10 theme to Hemingway Rewritten, the spacing between lines within a paragraph is double-spaced, which results in to much white space. Other blogs I have seen using Hemingway Rewritten don’t seem to have the double spacing. How can I get back to the 1.5 spacing in the text? I am new to CSS.
  Thank you

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 7:55 pm

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  Hi, add the following and adjust as desired.

  body, button, input, select, textarea {
      line-height: 1.7em;
  }

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  mcorlett · Member · Apr 15, 2014 at 3:37 pm

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  Thank you for your response. I typed the coding in as shown on lines 1, 2 and 3 and saved it. However, the spacing remained the same. I am probably missing something.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 15, 2014 at 6:27 pm

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  After typing it in, did you adjust the 1.7em value to your desired line height? 1.5 would be roughly equivalent to a 1.5 line spacing.

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  mcorlett · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 12:11 am

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  Still not changing the spacing. This is the way I am going about it.
  Appearance>Custom Design>CSS Edit

  1 /*
  2 body, button, input, select, textarea (
  3 line-height: 1.5em;
  4 )
  5 */

  Thank you for your patience.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 1:11 am

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  Hi, the /* and */ at the beginning and end of your code is the designations for a note, which means it will not apply what is in between those two. Also, you used parenthesis instead of curly brackets in the code.

  I’ve gone into your CSS and fixed it for you.

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  mcorlett · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 1:30 am

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  Thank you very much for your help. Especially brackets vs. parenthesis.
  Duh! I am actually starting a HTML/CSS class tomorrow. Obviously, I need it.
  Best Regards,

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 2:53 am

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  No problem, and you are welcome, and best of luck with your classes.

  (And we are all beginners at one time. :)