Adjusting distance for or

[ketanco]

Hello, I have a basic question. How do you adjust the height of empty space between two lines of text under each other? </br> seems to little and <p> seems too much for what i am trying to do....such as

<p> some text - line 1</p>
<p> some text - line 2</p>

some text - line 1

some text - line 2

Here the distance between two lines of text is too much for what I am trying to do...But if I used </br> then two lines are displaying right on top of each other, almost touching...I need some distance in between the two extremes. How do you do that?

[aeroweb99]

Using css, add a margin to the p declaration to your liking. If you don't want it on all paragraphs then add a class or id to the particular paragraph.

[ketanco]

Neither of the code below worked...What is wrong here? (by the way this is in a php echo statement)
<a style='margin-bottom: -9px;' href='........'> $aa[0]</a><p>

or
<a href='.......'> $aa[0]</a><p style='margin-bottom: -9px;'>

whatever px value i use, it seems no effect on the space between this line and the line below.
without any margin, the code was like below by the way...all i want is to be able to adjust space between them...
<a href='.......'> $aa[0]</a></br>
<a href='......'> $aa[1]</a></br>
<a href='.......'> $aa[2]</a></br>

[jyuill]

If you want space in between each line of a <p> or <a> and not just between one <p> and another, use line-height. If you want space in between one <p> and another use margin. If you want more space, you shouldn't be using a negative margin.

[aeroweb99]

Apply a line-height globally in a style sheet if you want it to be uniform throughout the site. If you just want it for a particular section, then wrap it in a div and apply your bottom margins or line height there. You also have single quotes in the "a" tag where it should be double quotes, however I don't know if that's how it needs to be with php or not. I personally don't like inline styles as it bloats the code and you can always get the effect your looking for by wrapping that section in a div.