CSS Spatial Lines Between Spans

Question

I have this structure:

<div class="gBigPage">
    <span class="gBigMonthShort">FEB</span><br />
    <span class="gBigDayShort">23</span><br />
    <span class="gBigYearShort">2011</span>
</div>

The gaps between the text lines are too large, I need to reduce them so that they practically touch each other.

/* Mouseover div for day numbers */
.gBigPage{
    height:45px;
    width:30px;
    font-family:Arial;
    font-weight:bold;
    background-color:#ffee99;
    text-align:center;
    border-top:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    border-left:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    border-right:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    position:absolute;
    z-index:3;
}
.gBigPage:hover{
    cursor:pointer;
}
/* In the big day box, the month at top */
.gBigMonthShort{
    text-transform:uppercase;
    font-size:11px;
}
.gBigYearShort{
    font-size:11px;
}
.gBigDayShort{
    font-size:16px;
}

I can't do relative positioning for spans, since there is a bug in Chrome that flickers the mouse effect, pure CSS is the only thing that seems to work.

A script, for example: http://jsfiddle.net/GmKsv/

Answer 1

All you need is a line in your CSS. Add this to yours gBigPage.

Here is the code:

.gBigPage{
    height:45px;
    width:30px;
    font-family:Arial;
    font-weight:bold;
    background-color:#ffee99;
    text-align:center;
    border-top:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    border-left:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    border-right:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    position:absolute;
    z-index:3;
    line-height: 13px;
}

Demo on jsFiddle

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

css:),

Answer 3

line-height, .

.gBigMonthShort { line-height: 10px; }

Answer 4

Tom, have you tried using CSS line height? link text

Answer 5

You must set 2 levels of line height, one in the container and one for each range.

* Mouseover div for day numbers */
.gBigPage{
    height:45px;
    width:30px;
    font-family:Arial;
    font-weight:bold;
    background-color:#ffee99;
    text-align:center;
    border-top:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    border-left:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    border-right:1px solid #c0c0c0;
    position:absolute;
    z-index:3;
    line-height:4px;

}

/* In the big day box, the month at top */
.gBigMonthShort{
    text-transform:uppercase;
    font-size:11px;
     line-height:13px;
}
.gBigYearShort{
    font-size:11px;
     line-height:9px;
}
.gBigDayShort{
    font-size:16px;
    line-height: 13px;
}

Answer 6

Make the block level <span>and remove line breaks:

http://jsfiddle.net/GmKsv/12/