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css-text-spacing	CSS Text Spacing	Frontend	draft	conceptual		text spacing text-indent letter-spacing line-height word-spacing white-space		B	0.88	2026-06-23	2026-06-23			css web frontend w3schools text spacing	https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_text_spacing.asp

CSS Text Spacing

🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)

CSS provides five text-spacing properties — text-indent, letter-spacing, line-height, word-spacing, and white-space — to control indentation, character/word/line spacing, and whitespace handling. [S1]

🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)

• text-indent — specifies the indentation of the first line in a text-block; negative values are permitted for leftward indentation. [S1]
• letter-spacing — specifies the space between the characters in a text; negative values are allowed. [S1]
• line-height — specifies the space between lines; negative values are not permitted. [S1]
• word-spacing — specifies the space between the words in a text; negative values are allowed. [S1]
• white-space — specifies how whitespace inside an element is handled; values include normal, nowrap, pre, pre-line, and pre-wrap. [S1]

🧩 추출된 패턴 (Extracted patterns)

• First-line indent pattern — text-indent: <length>; to indent the opening line of a block. [S1]
• Character/word tracking pattern — adjust letter-spacing and word-spacing (including negative values) to tighten or loosen spacing. [S1]
• Line density pattern — use unitless line-height (e.g., 0.8 vs 1.8) for tighter or looser line spacing. [S1]
• No-wrap pattern — white-space: nowrap; to prevent text from wrapping. [S1]

📖 세부 내용 (Details)

The page discusses five CSS properties for controlling text spacing: text-indent, letter-spacing, line-height, word-spacing, and white-space. [S1]

Text Indentation — "The CSS text-indent property is used to specify the indentation of the first line in a text-block." Negative values are permitted for leftward indentation. [S1]

p {
  text-indent: 50px;
}

Letter Spacing — "The CSS letter-spacing property is used to specify the space between the characters in a text." Negative values are allowed. [S1]

h1 {
  letter-spacing: 5px;
}

h2 {
  letter-spacing: -2px;
}

Line Height — "The CSS line-height property is used to specify the space between lines." Negative values are not permitted. [S1]

p.small {
  line-height: 0.8;
}

p.big {
  line-height: 1.8;
}

Word Spacing — "The CSS word-spacing property is used to specify the space between the words in a text." Negative values are allowed. [S1]

p.one {
  word-spacing: 10px;
}

p.two {
  word-spacing: -2px;
}

White Space — "The CSS white-space property specifies how white-space inside an element is handled." This property can accept values including normal, nowrap, pre, pre-line, and pre-wrap. [S1]

p {
  white-space: nowrap;
}

A summary table on the page lists each property with its description, linking to detailed CSS reference documentation for each spacing attribute. [S1]

🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)

The page's own examples are the applied cases: first-line indentation, positive/negative letter spacing, tight vs loose line height, positive/negative word spacing, and a no-wrap whitespace rule. No external project/commit applications found in the source.

💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)

Spacing properties (language: CSS):

selector {
  text-indent: <length>;
  letter-spacing: <length>;
  line-height: <number | length>;
  word-spacing: <length>;
  white-space: normal | nowrap | pre | pre-line | pre-wrap;
}

Concrete example:

p.big {
  line-height: 1.8;
}

⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)

No contradictions found in the source.

✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도

• 상태: draft
• 검증 단계: conceptual (실제 적용 사례 발견 시 applied/validated로 승격 가능)
• 출처 신뢰도: B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference, not a primary standards body)
• 신뢰 점수: 0.88
• 중복 검사 결과: 신규 생성 (New discovery)

🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)

• 상위/루트: CSS Tutorial
• 관련 개념: CSS Text Transformation, CSS Text Alignment, CSS Text Decoration
• 참조 맥락: Referenced when tuning the spacing and whitespace handling of textual content.

📚 출처 (Sources)

• [S1] W3Schools — CSS Text Spacing — https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_text_spacing.asp

📝 변경 이력 (Change history)

• 2026-06-23: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "CSS Text Spacing" page (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).