Letter Spacing

CSS provides the ability to adjust the letter spacing within your text. In other words, when creating a web page or blog, you can specify the space between each letter in your text. In desktop publishing, this is known as "tracking". This article shows you how to adjust the letter spacing in your HTML documents.

To adjust the letter spacing of your text, you need to use the CSS letter-spacing property. The value that you provide determines the space between the letters.

Below are some examples using different values for the letter-spacing property.

Letter Spacing Examples

Here are examples of the different value types that you can specify on the letter-spacing property. For example, if you write letter-spacing:3px;, you are specifying that there should be 3 extra pixels between each letter.