letter-spacing

I realise that in the states large numbers are formatted with a , between thousands so you would write $1,000,000.00 . In South Africa a , is non-standard and could be used as a decimal point instead of the . . We would write $1000000.00 which is horrible to read. The typical solution is to use a bit of whitespace: $1 000 000.00 . The problem with that solution is that it still looks terrible. If I assume values are currency formatted in a particular DOM element (i.e. the numbers are suffixed with .00 even if it's double zero), the ideal solution would be to use CSS to somehow manipulate the

My question is basically the same as this one, but replace "line-height" with "letter-spacing": When a relative line-height is inherited, it is not relative to the element's font-size. Why? And how do i make it relative? My use case is like this: body { font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 1.2em; /* I would like letter-spacing to be relative to the font-size across the document, at least until I override it */ } .small { font-size: 14px; /* letter-spacing is 1.2em of 18px instead of 14px */ } I know that the reason it doesn't work is that the computed value, and not the specified value, is

I am currently building a site from a PSD. Most of the fonts have a letter-tracking of -25 ( <- AV-> : I'm guessing that is the symbol for letter spacing?). How would I get the same effect in CSS? I know the property is letter-spacing: X but it doesn't take percentages and -25px or pts would be a huge figure! You can use the em dimension instead of px , thus sizing the spacing relative to the font size (so photoshop's 25% is somewhere around .25em ). In Photoshop letter-spacing is called letter-tracking and is specifically the space between each letter of text. The problem is that Photoshop

I'm need to modify letter-spacing (font tracking) in a JTextPane, and I can't get it to work. When I'm using a JTextArea, I can just do: Font font = new Font("Courier New", Font.PLAIN, 10); HashMap <TextAttribute, Object> attrs = new HashMap<TextAttribute, Object>(); attrs.put(TextAttribute.TRACKING, -0.1); font = font.deriveFont(attrs); textArea.setFont(font); but as I need to change line spacing, I need to use a JTextPane, and doing: textPane.setFont(font) as I did with the JTextArea doesn't work. another thing I tried was: MutableAttributeSet set = new SimpleAttributeSet(); StyleConstants

I ran across the problem, I need to make it easy for users to read the text, so I used letter-spacing of 1 px, but it looks ugly, so I thought I'll use half a pixel so 0.5px, but it doesn't work, I tried using em attributes, but didn't achieve the task. So is there a way to make letter spacing half pixel (cross browser solution if possible) This bug has been reported back in 2008 and is confirmed. So if someone feels like hacking into webkit that would make a lot of designers happy. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20606 Sub-pixel letter spacing works fine on FF, but not on WebKit (at