hiding text using “text-indent”

Question

I\'m trying to hide some text inside an

element using CSS by setting text-indent: -999px;.
For some reason this doesn\'t work when I set

Answer 1

You can use line-height specifying a large value, say 100px for a 30px high container.

only works if your container is limited in size. you may have to specifically set height if it isn't yet.