{"id":101,"date":"2007-11-12T20:43:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2007-11-12T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:44:16","slug":"css-letter-spacing-oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/css-letter-spacing-oddities\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS letter spacing oddities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to help my friend Jeff help work on his sister&#8217;s web site I explained to him that he had a text-align justify rule. For a lark I suggested if he wanted to keep that going he could always use letter-spacing\/word-spacing. While looking for a <acronym title=\"Uniform Resource Locator\">URL<\/acronym> to send to him I discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-CSS2\/text.html#spacing-props\">word\/letter-spacing may take negative values<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the life of me I could not think of a real-world use case for allowing negative values. The best I could think of was to reverse the display of characters, so I <a href=\"\/work\/letterspacing\/\">tried giving letter-spacing a negative 1em value<\/a>. Holy macaroni! Talk about inconsistent! Safari 3 on Windows does show the content inverted like I expected. The content is entirely hidden in Firefox. The last &#8216;e&#8217; in &#8216;Content Here&#8217; is the only character to display in Internet Explorer 6. It appears that Opera 9.5 ignores the rule entirely!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to help my friend Jeff help work on his sister&#8217;s web site I explained to him that he had a text-align justify rule. For a lark I suggested if he wanted to keep that going he could always use letter-spacing\/word-spacing. While looking for a URL to send to him I discovered that word\/letter-spacing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}